WoRMS taxon details
Lunella coronata (Gmelin, 1791)
AphiaID: 216363
AphiaID: 216363
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Vetigastropoda (Subclass) > Trochoidea (Superfamily) > Turbinidae (Family) > Turbininae (Subfamily) > Lunella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Lunella Röding, 1798 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Lunella coronata coronata (Gmelin, 1791) Turbo (Lunella) coronata (Gmelin, 1791) Turbo coronatus Gmelin, 1791 Turbo creniferus Gmelin, 1791 Turbo hemprichii Troschel, 1849 Turbo modestus Philippi, 1847 Turbo trochoides Reeve, 1848 Turbo viridana Röding, 1798 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Indo-Pacific Marine Molluscs, available online at http://clade.ansp.org/obis/ [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Herbert D.G. (1988). Studies on Priotrochus obscurus and the systematics position of Priotrochus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of zoology 214:561-268. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Nakano T., Takashashi K. & Ozawa T. (2007) Description of an endangered new species of Lunella (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Venus 66(1-2):1-10. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Lunella coronata coreensis (Récluz, 1853) accepted as Lunella coreensis (Récluz, 1853) Subspecies Lunella coronata coronata (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Lunella coronata (Gmelin, 1791) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (124 nucleotides; 64 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Shell up to 4 cm, with conspicuous flattened, cup-like scales interspersed by small, regular rows of nodules. Colour pale to greenish flecked with purplish-brown markings (often encrusted with light pink coralline algae). Smooth to faintly granular operculum with pale green centre. Habitat: upper eulittoral, in pools or under stones, Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216363 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Lunella coronata (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216363 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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