Contents

Lunella

Lunella
Two shellsofLunella granulata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Lunella Röding, 1798
Type species
Turbo versicolor Gmelin, 1791
Synonyms[1]
Lunella (Lunella) Röding, 1798 Lunella (Ninella) Gray, 1850 Lunella (Subninella) Thiele, 1929 Ninella Gray, 1850 Subninella Thiele, 1929 Turbo (Lunella) Röding, 1798 (rank change)

Lunella is a genusofsea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.^[1]

The Australian Faunal Directory classifies LunellaasTurbo (Lunella) Röding, 1798 ^[2]

Species within the genus Lunella include:

• Lunella cinerea (Born, 1778)^[3]
• Lunella coronata (Gmelin, 1791)^[4]
• Lunella correensis (Récluz, 1853)^[5]
• Lunella granulata (Gmelin, 1791)^[6]
• Lunella jungi (Lai, 2006)
• Lunella moniliformis Röding, 1798
• Lunella ogasawarana Tomoyulo Nakano, Kyoko Takashashi & Tomowo Ozawa, 2007^[7]
• Lunella smaragda (Gmelin, 1791)^[8]
• Lunella torquata (Gmelin, 1791)^[9]
• Lunella undulata (Lightfoot, 1786)^[10]
• Lunella viridicallus (Jousseaume, 1898)

• 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). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. 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, 573–592

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lunella.

• 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. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (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, 573–592

This Turbinidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.