Lunella cinerea

Lunella cinerea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Lunella
Species:	L. cinerea
Binomial name
Lunella cinerea (Born, 1778)
Synonyms
Lunella (Lunella) cinereusBorn, I. von, 1778 Turbo cinereusBorn, 1778 Turbo lugubrisReeve, 1848 Turbo mespilusGmelin, 1791 Turbo pictaRöding, 1798 Turbo porcatusReeve, 1848 Turbo porphyritesGmelin, 1791 Turbo versicolorGmelin, 1791 Turbo (Lunella) cinereusBorn, 1778

Lunella cinerea, common name the smooth moon turban, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. ^[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 50 mm. The solid, umbilicate shell has a depressed-globose shape with a strong spiral sculpture. The spire is obtuse. The suture is slightly undulating. The five whorls are spirally lirate, and with lirulae in the interstices. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific, off the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands, the Philippines, in the Red Sea, and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

References

1. Lunella cinerea (Born, 1778) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 20 April 2010.
2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Turbo porphyrites var. porcatus)

• Born, I. von 1778. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, pl. 1, Testacea. - Verzeichniss etc. Illust. Vindobonae. Vienna : J.P. Krauss xlii 458 pp.
• Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910.
• Couthouy, J.P., 1839. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca and shells, and remarks on several polypi found in Massachusetts Bay. Boston Journal of Natural History. 2 : 53–111
• Reeve, L.A. 1848. Monograph of the genus Turbo. pls 1-13 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 4.
• Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
• Wilson, B. 2002. A Handbook to Australian Seashells on Seashores East to West and North to South. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp.
• Subba Rao, N.V. 2003. Indian Seashells (Part 1). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper (192): 1–416

External links

• "Lunella (Lunella) cinereus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.