Lunella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
The Australian Faunal Directory classifies Lunella as Turbo (Lunella) <small>Röding, 1798</small>
Species
Species within the genus Lunella include:
- Lunella cinerea <small>(Born, 1778)</small>
- Lunella coronata <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Lunella correensis <small>(Récluz, 1853)</small>
- Lunella granulata <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Lunella jungi <small>(Lai, 2006)</small>
- Lunella moniliformis <small>Röding, 1798</small>
- Lunella ogasawarana <small>Tomoyulo Nakano, Kyoko Takashashi & Tomowo Ozawa, 2007</small>
- Lunella smaragda <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Lunella torquata <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Lunella undulata <small>(Lightfoot, 1786)</small>
- Lunella viridicallus <small>(Jousseaume, 1898)</small>
References
- Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp.
- Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573âÂÂ592
External links
- Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp.
- Gray, J. E. (1850). [text. In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. iiâÂÂiv (preface); 1âÂÂ62 (explanation of plates 1âÂÂ312 in Volumes 1âÂÂ3); pp. 63âÂÂ124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127âÂÂ219 (reprint of Gray 1847)]
- Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573âÂÂ592