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Lotoria armata

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Lotoria armata
Drawing of a shell of Lotoria armata (holotype)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Cymatiidae
Genus: Lotoria
Species:
L. armata
Binomial name
Lotoria armata
(G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cymatium (Ranularia) armatum (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)
  • Cymatium armatum (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)
  • Lotorium armatum G.B. Sowerby III, 1897

Lotoria armata is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.[1]

Description

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The shell has short spines surrounding it. The length of the shell attains 72 mm, its maximum diameter 42 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Australia (Queensland). In shallow water up to 20m deep.

References

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  1. ^ a b Lotoria armata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.
  • Cernohorsky, W. O. (1975). "The Taxonomy of Some Indo-Pacific Mollusca: Part 3. With descriptions of new taxa and remarks on an Ecuadorian fossil species of Turridae". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 12: 213–234. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906228. Wikidata Q58677011.
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
  • Arthur, A.R. 1983. Notes on Cymatium armatum (Sowerby III). La Conchiglia 1983(Sep-Oct): 5
  • Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp.
  • Beu A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna and revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 178: 1-255
  • Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120
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