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Lotoria | |
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Lotoria grandimaculata shell | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cymatiidae |
Genus: | Lotoria Emerson & Old, 1963[1] |
Type species | |
Lotoria perryi (Emerson & Old, 1963) | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Cymatium (Lotoria) Emerson & Old, 1963 |
Lotoria is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.[2]
The triangular whorls are coronated. The aperture is longer than the spire. The outer lip is dentated internally.[3]
This genus occurs in the Indo-West Pacific and off the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Marquesas Islands and Australia (Queensland)
Species within the genus Lotoria include: