Lotoria lotoria

Lotoria lotoria
Temporal range: Eocene - Recent
A shell of Lotoria lotoria with the periostracum removed
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Ranellidae
Subfamily: Ranellinae
Genus: Lotoria
Species: L. lotoria
Binomial name
Lotoria lotoria
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Cymatium (Lotoria) lotorium (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cymatium lotorium (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cymatium rhinoceros P.F. Röding, 1798[1]
  • Murex lotorium Linnaeus, 1758
  • Triton distortum Lamarck, 1816

Lotoria lotoria, common name the black-spotted snail or washing bath triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a tropical marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells, or tritons. This species was previously known as Cymatium lotorium.[2]

Fossil records

Fossil shell of Lotoria lotoria from Pliocene of Italy

Fossils from this family date back to the Eocene (age range: from 55.8 to 0.012 million years ago).[3]

Description

Shells of Lotoria lotoria can reach a size of 90–160 millimetres (3.5–6.3 in).[4][5]

Distribution

This species of marine snail lives in the tropical Indo-Pacific oceans.[5][6]

Habitat

Lotoria lotoria is quite common in coral reefs in Australia and the Indian Ocean.

References

  1. ↑ WMSDB
  2. ↑ Lotoria lotoria (Linnaeus, 1758). WoRMS (2010). Lotoria lotoria (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=476511 on 27 June 2010.
  3. ↑ Taxon 9721; Fossilworks
  4. ↑ Cymatium lotorium; on Jaxshells online
  5. 1 2 Gastropods
  6. ↑ Discover life
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp
  • Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. 159 pp
  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp
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