Lotoria
Lotoria grandimaculata shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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]

Cymatium (Lotoria) Emerson & Old, 1963

Lotoria is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.[2]

Description

The triangular whorls are coronated. The aperture is longer than the spire. The outer lip is dentated internally.[3]

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:

Synonyms

References

  • Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp.
  • Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
  • Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
  • Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120


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