Subgenus Lunella (Lunella) Röding, 1798
Compiler and date details
September 2014 - Des Beechey & Winston F. Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Reviewed by Bruce Marshall (Tepapa, New Zealand).
December 2012 - Des Beechey, Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Stephanie Baccarella, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- Lunella Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [103].
Type species:
Turbo versicolor Gmelin, 1791 by subsequent designation, see Powell, A.W.B. 1937. Shellfish of New Zealand : an illustrated handbook on the subject of the molluscan fauna of New Zealand. Auckland : Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 124 pp. [66].
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific, from Red Sea to Indonesia.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
General References
Williams, S.T. 2007. Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 92: 573-592 [575]
Williams, S.T., et al. 2011. Speciation and dispersal along continental coastlines and island arcs in the Indo-west Pacific Turbinid Gastropod genus Lunella. Evolution 65(6): 1752-1771 [1753]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TURBINIDAE | 07-Sep-2011 | ADDED | Mr Des Beechey (AM) Stephanie Baccarella (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Dr Winston Ponder (AM) |