Falsilunatia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Globisininae of the family Naticidae, which are known as moon snails or moon shells.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Falsilunatia Powell, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196964 on 2020-11-20
Species Species within the genus Falsilunatia include: Falsilunatia ambigua (Suter) Falsilunatia amphiala (R. B. Watson, 1881) Falsilunatia benthicola (Dell, 1990) Falsilunatia carcellesi (Dell, 1990) Falsilunatia eltanini Dell, 1990 Falsilunatia falklandica (Preston, 1913) Falsilunatia fartilis (Watson, 1881) Falsilunatia joubini (Lamy, 1911) Falsilunatia nigromaculata (Lamy, 1911) Falsilunatia notorcadensis Dell, 1990 Falsilunatia patagonica (Philippi, 1845) Falsilunatia pisum (Hedley, 1916) Falsilunatia pseudopsila Barnard, 1963 Falsilunatia scotiana (Dell, 1990) Falsilunatia xantha (Watson, 1881) Species brought into synonymy Falsilunatia delicatula Dell, 1990: synonym of Kerguelenatica delicatula (E. A. Smith, 1902) Falsilunatia powelli Dell, 1956: synonym of Falsilunatia ambigua (Suter, 1913) Falsilunatia soluta (Gould, 1848): synonym of Falsilunatia patagonica (Philippi, 1845) Falsilunatia subperforata Dell, 1956: synonym of Amauropsis subperforata (Dell, 1956)
References
Powell A. W. B. (1979), New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.
External links
Powell A. W. B. (1951). Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda. Discovery Reports, 26: 47-196, pl. 5-10