Taxon profile

genus

Euspira Agassiz in Sowerby, 1838

kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » order Littorinimorpha » family Naticidae - Moon Shells

Scientific synonyms

Labellinacca Cossmann, 1919
Lunatia Gray, 1847
Mamma (Lunatia) Gray, 1847
Natica (Euspira) Agassiz, 1837
Natica (Lunatia) Gray, 1847
Polinices (Euspira) Agassiz, 1837
Polinices (Lunatia) Gray, 1847
Uber (Euspira) Agassiz, 1837

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Description

Diagnosis. Shell globose, spire moderately elevated; umbilicus open, umbilical callus weakly developed, only partially blocking umbilicus.
Remarks. Majima (1989:33) and Bouchet and Waren (1993:767) have treated Euspira as a full genus, placing Lunatia in synonymy. Species were previously placed in Polinices, but that genus is best left for tropical species with glossy shells. Kabat (1991:429) corrected errors in type designation citations of previous authors.

McLean J.H. & Gosliner T.M. (1996) Taxonomic atlas of the benthic fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Vol. 9, Pt. 2: The Mollusca: The Gastropoda.

Author: Jan Delsing

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Included taxa

Number of records: 68

species Euspira abyssicola (E. A. Smith, 1896)

species Euspira agujana (Dall, 1908)

species Euspira blaizensis (Kilburn, 1976)

species Euspira borshengjungi K.-Y. Lai, 2017

species Euspira catena (da Costa, 1778)

species Euspira crawfordiana (Dall, 1908)

species Euspira fringilla (W.H. Dall, 1881)

species Euspira fusca (Blainville, 1825)

species Euspira gilva (Philippi, 1851)

species Euspira grossularia (Marche-Marchad, 1957)

species Euspira guillemini (Payraudeau, 1826)

species Euspira heros (Say, 1822)

species Euspira intricata (E. Donovan, 1804)

species Euspira lemaitrei (Kilburn, 1976)

species Euspira levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880)

species Euspira levis (E. A. Smith, 1896)

species Euspira litorina (Dall, 1908)

species Euspira macilenta (R. A. Philippi, 1844)

species Euspira massieri Petuch & Berschauer, 2018

species Euspira montagui (Forbes, 1838)

species Euspira monterona Dall, 1919

species Euspira napus E.A. Smith, 1904

species Euspira nitida (Donovan, 1804)

species Euspira notabilis (Jeffreys, 1885)

species Euspira nubila (Dall, 1889)

species Euspira nux (Okutani, 1964)

species Euspira obtusa (Jeffreys, 1885)

species Euspira pallida (W.J. Broderip & G.B. Sowerby I, 1829)

species Euspira pardoana (Dall, 1908)

species Euspira phaeocephala (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)

species Euspira pila (Pilsbry, 1911)

species Euspira plicispira (Kuroda, 1961)

species Euspira presubplicata (Bouchet & Warén, 1993)

species Euspira radiata (R. B. Watson, 1881)

species Euspira sagamiensis Kuroda & Habe, 1971

species Euspira strebeli (Dall, 1908)

species Euspira subplicata (J.G. Jeffreys, 1885)

species Euspira talismani Bouchet & Warén, 1993

species Euspira tenuis (Récluz, 1851)

species Euspira tenuistriata (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1911)

species Euspira triseriata (Say, 1826)

species Euspira yokoyamai (Kuroda & Habe, 1952)

Fossil taxa

species Euspira blainvillei (Deshayes, 1864) ^†

species Euspira consobrina (Deshayes, 1864) ^†

species Euspira elegans (Suter, 1917) ^†

species Euspira eyrensis Finlay, 1927 ^†

species Euspira fyfei (Marwick, 1924) ^†

species Euspira gerassimovi Beisel, 1983 ^†

species Euspira glaucinoides (J. Sowerby, 1812) ^†

species Euspira guamblinensis Frassinetti & Covacevich, 1995 ^†

species Euspira hamiltoni (Deshayes, 1864) ^†

species Euspira helicina (Brocchi, 1814) ^†
Tertiary: Pliocene

species Euspira ilhagwilensis Pacaud, 2016 ^†

species Euspira jhuraensis S. S. Das, Mondal, S. Saha, Bardhan & R. Saha, 2019 ^†

species Euspira labellata (Lamarck, 1804) ^†

species Euspira lakhaparensis S. S. Das, Mondal, S. Saha, Bardhan & R. Saha, 2019 ^†

species Euspira lateaperta (Marwick, 1924) ^†

species Euspira lorioli (Deshayes, 1864) ^†

species Euspira pilula (Deshayes, 1864) ^†

species Euspira pseudoclimax (Cossmann, 1888) ^†

species Euspira rectilabrum (Conrad, 1858) ^†

species Euspira selwyniana (Wilckens, 1922) ^†

species Euspira tenuicula (Deshayes, 1864) ^†

species Euspira turbinata (Deshayes, 1864) ^†

species Euspira varians (Dujardin, 1837) ^†

species Euspira venusta (Deshayes, 1864) ^†

species Euspira viviparoides (Cossmann, 1888) ^†

Nomina dubia ^dub.

species Euspira glaucina (Linnaeus, 1758) ^dub.

Links and literature

The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1096685]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Euspira Agassiz in J. Sowerby, 1837]
Data retrieved on: 22 January 2020

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^dub. nomen dubium - name of unknown or doubtful application

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