Euspira fusca

Euspira fusca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Naticoidea
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Euspira
Species:	E. fusca
Binomial name
Euspira fusca (de Blainville, 1825) ref> Blainville H.M.D. de (1825). Natice, Natica, pp. 247-255, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 34. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris, & Le Normant, Paris.
Synonyms[1]
Lunatia fusca (Blainville, 1825) Lunatia sordida (Philippi, 1836) Natica angulata Jeffreys, 1885 Natica brocchiana Philippi, 1851 Natica compacta Jeffreys, 1885 Natica fusca Blainville, 1825 (original combination) Natica plicatula Reeve, 1855 Natica sordida Philippi, 1844 (invalid: junior homonym of Natica sordida Swainson, 1821) Polinices (Lunatia) fusca (Blainville, 1825) Polinices (Lunatia) sordida (Blainville, 1825) Polinices fuscus (Blainville, 1825)

Euspira fusca, common name the dark necklace shell, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, European waters and the Mediterranean Sea.

References

1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Euspira fusca (Blainville, 1825). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140529 on 2015-06-21

• Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp
• Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates
• Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
• BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
• 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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