- Source: Falsilunatia
Falsilunatia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Globisininae of the family Naticidae, which are known as moon snails or moon shells.
Species
Species within the genus Falsilunatia include:
Falsilunatia ambigua (Suter)
Falsilunatia amphiala (R. B. Watson, 1881)
Falsilunatia benthicola (Dell, 1990)
Falsilunatia carcellesi (Dell, 1990)
Falsilunatia eltanini Dell, 1990
Falsilunatia falklandica (Preston, 1913)
Falsilunatia fartilis (Watson, 1881)
Falsilunatia joubini (Lamy, 1911)
Falsilunatia nigromaculata (Lamy, 1911)
Falsilunatia notorcadensis Dell, 1990
Falsilunatia patagonica (Philippi, 1845)
Falsilunatia pisum (Hedley, 1916)
Falsilunatia pseudopsila Barnard, 1963
Falsilunatia scotiana (Dell, 1990)
Falsilunatia xantha (Watson, 1881)
Species brought into synonymy
Falsilunatia delicatula Dell, 1990: synonym of Kerguelenatica delicatula (E. A. Smith, 1902)
Falsilunatia powelli Dell, 1956: synonym of Falsilunatia ambigua (Suter, 1913)
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.
External links
Powell A. W. B. (1951). Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda. Discovery Reports, 26: 47-196, pl. 5-10