Lunella
Genus of gastropods
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Lunella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
| Lunella | |
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| Two shells of Lunella granulata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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] | |
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The Australian Faunal Directory classifies Lunella as Turbo (Lunella) Röding, 1798 [2]
Species
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)
