Lotoria

Lotoria
Lotoria grandimaculata shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cymatiidae
Genus:	Lotoria Emerson & Old, 1963
Type species
Lotoria perryi (Emerson & Old, 1963)
Synonyms
Cymatium (Lotoria) Emerson & Old, 1963

Lotoria is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.

Description

The triangular whorls are coronated. The aperture is longer than the spire. The outer lip is dentated internally.

Distribution

This genus occurs in the Indo-West Pacific and off the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Marquesas Islands and Australia (Queensland)

Species

Species within the genus Lotoria include:

• Lotoria armata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)
• Lotoria grandimaculata (Reeve, 1844)
• Lotoria lotoria (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lotoria triangularis (Perry, 1811)

Synonyms

• Lotoria perryi (Emerson & Old, 1963): synonym of Lotoria triangularis (Perry, 1811)

References

• Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp.
• Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
• Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
• Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120

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• Emerson W.K. & Old W.E. (1963). A new subgenus and species of Cymatium (Mollusca, Gastropoda). American Museum Novitates. 2137: 1-13.