Lunella cinerea

Lunella cinerea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Lunella
Species: L. cinerea
Binomial name
Lunella cinerea
(Born, 1778)
Synonyms
  • Lunella (Lunella) cinereus Born, I. von, 1778
  • Turbo cinereus Born, 1778
  • Turbo lugubris Reeve, 1848
  • Turbo mespilus Gmelin, 1791
  • Turbo picta Röding, 1798
  • Turbo porcatus Reeve, 1848
  • Turbo porphyrites Gmelin, 1791
  • Turbo versicolor Gmelin, 1791
  • Turbo (Lunella) cinereus Born, 1778

Lunella cinerea, common name the smooth moon turban, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 50 mm. The solid, umbilicate shell has a depressed-globose shape with a strong spiral sculpture. The spire is obtuse. The suture is slightly undulating. The five whorls are spirally lirate, and with lirulae in the interstices.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific, off the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands, the Philippines, in the Red Sea, and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

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