Euspira
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Euspira is a genus
of medium-sized sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Naticidae
, the moon snails.
Species brought into synonymy :
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of medium-sized sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod molluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Naticidae
Naticidae
Naticidae, common name the moon snails, is a family of minute to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Naticidae is the only family in the superfamily Naticoidea....
, the moon snails.
Species
Species within the genus Euspira include:- Euspira catenaEuspira catenaEuspira catena, previously known as Natica catena, common name the large necklace shell, is a medium-sized species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.-Description:...
- Euspira fortuneiEuspira fortuneiEuspira fortunei is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Reeve, 1855) - Euspira fringillaEuspira fringillaEuspira fringilla is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Dall, 1881) - Euspira fuscaEuspira fuscaEuspira fusca is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Blainville, 1825) - Euspira grossulariaEuspira grossulariaEuspira grossularia is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Marche-Marchad, 1957) - Euspira guilleminii (Payraudeau, 1826)
- Euspira heros (Say, 1822)
- Euspira immaculataEuspira immaculataEuspira immaculata, common name the immaculate moonsnail, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Totten, 1835) - Euspira leviculaEuspira leviculaEuspira levicula is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(A. E. Verrill, 1880) - Euspira lewisiiEuspira lewisiiEuspira lewisii , common name Lewis' moon snail, is a species of large operculated sea snail. It is a predatory marine gastropod in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Gould, 1847) - Euspira macilentaEuspira macilentaEuspira macilenta is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Philippi, 1844) - Euspira montaguiEuspira montaguiEuspira montagui is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Forbes, 1838) - Euspira nanaEuspira nanaEuspira nana is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Møller, 1842) - Euspira notabilisEuspira notabilisEuspira notabilis is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
Jeffreys, 1885 - Euspira obtusaEuspira obtusaEuspira obtusa is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Jeffreys, 1885) - Euspira pallidaEuspira pallidaEuspira pallida, common name the pale moonsnail, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Broderip & Sowerby, 1829) - Euspira patagonica (Philippi, 1845)
- Euspira phaeocephalaEuspira phaeocephalaEuspira phaeocephala is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1896) - Euspira presubplicataEuspira presubplicataEuspira presubplicata is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Bouchet & Warén, 1993) - Euspira pulchellaEuspira pulchellaEuspira pulchella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.-Distribution:...
(Risso, 1826) - Euspira strebeli (Dall, 1908)
- Euspira subplicataEuspira subplicataEuspira subplicata is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Jeffreys, 1885) - Euspira tenuistriata (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1911)
- Euspira triseriataEuspira triseriataEuspira triseriata, common name the spotted moonsnail, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Say, 1826)
Species brought into synonymy :
- Euspira nitida (Donovan, 1804) accepted as Euspira pulchella (Risso, 1826)