Lunatia
| Lunatia | |
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| Live specimen of Neverita lewisii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Naticoidea |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Subfamily: | Polinicinae |
| Genus: |
Lunatia Gray, 1847 |
| Type species | |
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Natica ampullaria Lamarck, 1822 |
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Lunatia is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
The species in this genus have been brought in synonymy mostly with Euspira
Torigoe & Inaba (2011) provided a rather arbitrary assignment of species to respectively Euspira and Lunatia and this has been at one time uploaded in the WoRMS classification. However this is not based on any in-depth phylogenetic analysis and has proved inconsistent when some closely related European species (e.g. Euspira guillemini, E. macilenta) were then not congeneric. Until a substantiated phylogenetic hypothesis is published for the group, Lunatia is here considered a junior subjective synonym of Euspira and all the species accepted under Euspira, following in this Marincowich (1977), Kabat (1991) and the Malacolog database.
Species within the genus Lunatia include:
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