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Lunatia heros (Say, 1822) 
AphiaID: 574706

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Naticoidea (Superfamily) > Naticidae (Family) > Polinicinae (Subfamily) > Lunatia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Lunatia Gray, 1847
Synonymised
taxa
  Euspira heros (Say, 1822)
Natica ampullaria Lamarck, 1822
Natica heros Say, 1822 (original combination)
Natica pomum Philippi, 1851
Polinices heros (Say, 1822)
Sources  basis of record: Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls. [details]

from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p.  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English common northern moon snail (from synonym)  [details]
French héros (from synonym)  [details]
French natice de l'Atlantique (from synonym)  [details]
Distribution Anse de Belliveau (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cobscook Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
L'Etang (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Lorneville Harbour (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Manicouagan (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New River (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Saint Andrews (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Saint Lawrence River (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (147 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Images 
Euspira heros - moon snail (large)
[image from synonym]
Euspira heros - moon snail (large)
added on 2010-03-18 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Lunatia heros
Lunatia heros
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:574706
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2011-07-01 08:10:36Z  created  db_admin
2011-10-27 04:14:08Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Lunatia heros (Say, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574706 on 2013-05-23
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