Lotoria armata

Lotoria armata
Drawing of a shell of Lotoria armata (holotype)
Scientific classification
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
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.

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

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

References

• Černohorský, Walter Oliver (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. 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

External links

• Sowerby, G. B. III. (1897). On three new shells from the collection of Mr. B.C. Thomas, of Brest. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 2(4): 137-138, pl. 11
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