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Euspira Agassiz, 1837

138239  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138239)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
  6. Littorinimorpha (Order)
  7. Naticoidea (Superfamily)
  8. Naticidae (Family)
  9. Polinicinae (Subfamily)
  10. Euspira (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Lunatia J. E. Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Mamma (Lunatia) Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Natica (Lunatia) Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Payraudeautia Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Polinices (Euspira) Agassiz, 1837 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Polinices (Lunatia) Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Species Euspira abyssicola (E. A. Smith, 1896)
  2. Species Euspira agujana (Dall, 1908)
  3. Species Euspira blaizensis (Kilburn, 1976)
  4. Species Euspira borshengjungi K.-Y. Lai, 2017
  5. Species Euspira catena (da Costa, 1778)
  6. Species Euspira constricta (Dall, 1908)
  7. Species Euspira crawfordiana (Dall, 1908)
  8. Species Euspira fringilla (Dall, 1881)
  9. Species Euspira fusca (Blainville, 1825)
  10. Species Euspira gilva (R. A. Philippi, 1851)
  11. Species Euspira grossularia (Marche-Marchad, 1957)
  12. Species Euspira guilleminii (Payraudeau, 1826)
  13. Species Euspira heros (Say, 1822)
  14. Species Euspira intricata (Donovan, 1804)
  15. Species Euspira lemaitrei (Kilburn, 1976)
  16. Species Euspira levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
  17. Species Euspira levis (E. A. Smith, 1896)
  18. Species Euspira litorina (Dall, 1908)
  19. Species Euspira macilenta (R. A. Philippi, 1844)
  20. Species Euspira montagui (Forbes, 1838)
  21. Species Euspira monterona Dall, 1919
  22. Species Euspira napus (E. A. Smith, 1904)
  23. Species Euspira nitida (Donovan, 1803)
  24. Species Euspira notabilis (Jeffreys, 1885)
  25. Species Euspira nubila (Dall, 1889)
  26. Species Euspira nux (Okutani, 1964)
  27. Species Euspira obtusa (Jeffreys, 1885)
  28. Species Euspira pallida (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
  29. Species Euspira pardoana (Dall, 1908)
  30. Species Euspira patagonica (R. A. Philippi, 1845)
  31. Species Euspira phaeocephala (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
  32. Species Euspira pila (Pilsbry, 1911)
  33. Species Euspira plicispira (Kuroda, 1961)
  34. Species Euspira presubplicata (Bouchet & Warén, 1993)
  35. Species Euspira radiata (R. B. Watson, 1881)
  36. Species Euspira sagamiensis Kuroda & T. Habe, 1971
  37. Species Euspira strebeli (Dall, 1908)
  38. Species Euspira subplicata (Jeffreys, 1885)
  39. Species Euspira talismani Bouchet & Warén, 1993
  40. Species Euspira tenuis (Récluz, 1850)
  41. Species Euspira tenuistriata (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1911)
  42. Species Euspira triseriata (Say, 1826)
  43. Species Euspira acosmita Dall, 1919 accepted as Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791) (synonym)
  44. Species Euspira bahamensis Dall, 1925 accepted as Sigatica semisulcata (J. E. Gray, 1839)
  45. Species Euspira canonica Dall, 1919 accepted as Euspira pallida (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
  46. Species Euspira draconis (Dall, 1903) accepted as Glossaulax draconis (Dall, 1903)
  47. Species Euspira edgari Finlay, 1927 accepted as Euspira levis (E. A. Smith, 1896) (invalid, unnecessary replacement name for Natica levis E.A. Smith, 1896)
  48. Species Euspira falklandica (Preston, 1913) accepted as Falsilunatia falklandica (Preston, 1913)
  49. Species Euspira fortunei (Reeve, 1855) accepted as Euspira gilva (R. A. Philippi, 1851)
  50. Species Euspira immaculata (Totten, 1835) accepted as Polinices immaculatus (Totten, 1835)
  51. Species Euspira lewisii (A. Gould, 1847) accepted as Neverita lewisii (A. Gould, 1847) (unaccepted combination)
  52. Species Euspira massieri Petuch & Berschauer, 2018 accepted as Euspira lemaitrei (Kilburn, 1976)
  53. Species Euspira nana (Møller, 1842) accepted as Pseudopolinices nanus (Møller, 1842)
  54. Species Euspira poliana (Delle Chiaje, 1826) accepted as Euspira nitida (Donovan, 1803)
  55. Species Euspira politiana Dall, 1919 accepted as Euspira pallida (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
  56. Species Euspira pulchella (Risso, 1826) accepted as Euspira nitida (Donovan, 1803)
  57. Species Euspira rouxi (Nicklès, 1952) accepted as Natica rouxi Nicklès, 1952
  58. Species Euspira sandwichensis (Dall, 1895) accepted as Natica sandwichensis (Dall, 1895) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  59. Species Euspira venusta Suter, 1907 accepted as Globisinum venustum (Suter, 1907) accepted as Globisinum drewi (Murdoch, 1899) (secondary homonym of Euspira venusta (Deshayes, 1864))
  60. Species Euspira glaucina (Linnaeus, 1758) (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Sowerby J.; Agassiz, L. (1837). Mineral-Conchologie Grossbrittaniens, von James Sowerby; deutsche Bearbeitung, herausgegeben von Hercules Nicolet, durchgesehen von Dr. Agassiz. Neuchatel: H. Nicolet. 52 pp., 21 pis.
page(s): 320; note: Right above AMPULLARIA acuta, in small font. [details] OpenAccess publication
Taxonomy Torigoe & Inaba (2011) provided a rather arbitrary assignment of species to respectively Euspira and Lunatia and this has...  
Taxonomy Torigoe & Inaba (2011) provided a rather arbitrary assignment of species to respectively Euspira and Lunatia and this has been at one time uploaded in the WoRMS classification. However this is not based on any in-depth phylogenetic analysis and has proved inconsistent when some closely related European species (e.g. Euspira guillemini, E. macilenta) were then not congeneric.
Until a substantiated phylogenetic hypothesis is published for the group, Lunatia is here considered a junior subjective synonym of Euspira and all the species accepted under Euspira, following in this Marincovich (1977), Kabat (1991) and the Malacolog database.  [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Euspira Agassiz, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138239 on 2025-04-16
Date
action
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Gofas, Serge
2007-04-19 19:59:16Z
changed
Gofas, Serge
2011-10-24 14:39:52Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2014-01-03 15:27:28Z
changed
Gofas, Serge
2017-01-28 18:23:50Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2020-12-03 09:39:29Z
changed
Vinarski, Maxim

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Nomenclature

original description Sowerby J.; Agassiz, L. (1837). Mineral-Conchologie Grossbrittaniens, von James Sowerby; deutsche Bearbeitung, herausgegeben von Hercules Nicolet, durchgesehen von Dr. Agassiz. Neuchatel: H. Nicolet. 52 pp., 21 pis.
page(s): 320; note: Right above AMPULLARIA acuta, in small font. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Lunatia J. E. Gray, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 149 [details] 

original description (of Natica (Payraudeautia) Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883) Bucquoy, E., Dautzenberg, P. & Dollfus, G. (1882-1886). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome Ier. Gastropodes. Paris: Baillière & fils. 570 pp., 66 pls. [pp. 1-84, pls 1-10, 1882; pp. 85-196, pls 11-20, 1883; pp. 197-342, pls 21-40, 1884; pp. 343-418, pls 41-50, 1885; pp. 419-570, pls 51-66, 1886]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103592
page(s): 149 [details] 

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details] 

Taxonomy

status source Kabat A. R. (1991). The classification of the Naticidae (Mollusca Gastropoda). Review and analysis of the supraspecific taxa. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152: 417-449, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4782270
page(s): 429 [details] 

status source Huelsken T., Tapken D., Dahlmann T., Wägele H., Riginos C. & Hollmann M. (2012) Systematics and phylogenetic species delimitation within Polinices s.l. (Caenogastropoda: Naticidae) based on molecular data and shell morphology. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 12: 349-375. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-012-0111-5 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (PeRMS) Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. Revista de Biologia Tropical. 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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Taxonomy Torigoe & Inaba (2011) provided a rather arbitrary assignment of species to respectively Euspira and Lunatia and this has been at one time uploaded in the WoRMS classification. However this is not based on any in-depth phylogenetic analysis and has proved inconsistent when some closely related European species (e.g. Euspira guillemini, E. macilenta) were then not congeneric.
Until a substantiated phylogenetic hypothesis is published for the group, Lunatia is here considered a junior subjective synonym of Euspira and all the species accepted under Euspira, following in this Marincovich (1977), Kabat (1991) and the Malacolog database.  [details]
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LanguageName 
French lunaties  [details]
Japanese タマツメタ属 [from synonym]  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Lunatia J. E. Gray, 1847)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Euspira) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lunatia) (from synonym Lunatia J. E. Gray, 1847)
To Genbank (from synonym Lunatia J. E. Gray, 1847)
To Genbank 
To The Arctic Traits Database (8 traits) (from synonym Lunatia J. E. Gray, 1847)
To The Arctic Traits Database (9 traits) 
To ITIS
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