Falsilunatia

Falsilunatia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Naticoidea
Family: Naticidae
Subfamily: Globisinae
Genus: Falsilunatia
Powell, 1951
Species

See text.

Falsilunatia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae, which are known as moon snails or moon shells.

Species

Species within the genus Falsilunatia include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Falsilunatia soluta (Gould, 1848): synonym of Falsilunatia patagonica (Philippi, 1845)
  • Falsilunatia subperforata Dell, 1956: synonym of Amauropsis subperforata (Dell, 1956)

References

  • Powell A. W. B. (1979), New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
  • Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.


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