Lotoria
Genus of gastropods
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Lotoria is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.[2]
| Lotoria | |
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| Lotoria grandimaculata shell | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cymatiidae |
| Genus: | Lotoria Emerson & Old, 1963[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lotoria perryi (Emerson & Old, 1963) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Cymatium (Lotoria) Emerson & Old, 1963 | |
Description
Distribution
This genus occurs in the Indo-West Pacific and off the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Marquesas Islands and Australia (Queensland)
Species
Species within the genus Lotoria include:
- Lotoria armata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)[4]
- Lotoria grandimaculata (Reeve, 1844)[5]
- Lotoria lotoria (Linnaeus, 1758)[6]
- Lotoria triangularis (Perry, 1811)
- Synonyms
- Lotoria perryi (Emerson & Old, 1963):[7] synonym of Lotoria triangularis (Perry, 1811)
