Lunella coronata ( Gmelin, 1791 )

Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), Zootaxa 4049 (1), pp. 1-98 : 70

Lunella coronata ( Gmelin, 1791)

Turbo coronatus Gmelin, 1791: 3594 , no. 21. Krauss, 1848: 101. Martens, 1879: 735. Martens, 1880: 294. Lamy, 1909: 330. Odhner, 1919: 14. Paes da Franca, 1960b: 56, pl. 2, fig. 3. Barnard, 1963a: 211. Kennelly, 1964: 55, pl. 5, fig. 31. Day, 1969: 159. Kensley, 1973: 50, fig. 135. Richards, 1981: 37, pl. 10, fig. 73. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 47, pl. 9, fig. 11, text fig. 12 (operculum). Drivas & Jay, 1988: 34, pl. 2, fig. 9. Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 26, fig. 82. Branch et al., 2010: 178, fig. 78.2. Type loc.: ‘ in streto Malaccensi ’ [Strait of Malacca], evidently erroneous (Williams et al. 2012); holotype in ZMUC ( Cernohorsky 1974: fig. 21).

Turbo (Lunella) coronatus — Moura, 1966: 26, pl. 1, fig. 3. Moura, 1968: 34, pl. 4, figs 4, 4a. Moura, 1969: 17, pl. 7, fig. 3 a, b. Moura, 1970: 65, pl. 2, fig. 5. Moura, 1972: 22, pl. 2, fig. 9a–c. Cernohorsky, 1974: 159, fig. 21 (holotype). Moura, 1976: 47, 51, pl. 2, figs 3a, b. Alf & Kreipl, 2003: 54, pls. 87, 88.

Lunella coronata — Williams, 2007: 577. Williams et al., 2011. Williams et al., 2012. Deuss et al., 2013: 138, fig. e.

Distribution. Western Indian Ocean; from the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and western Indian Ocean islands south to E. Cape (East London); intertidal.

Notes. Williams (2007) has shown that Lunella warrants recognition as genus distinct from Turbo and subsequent studies ( Williams et al. 2011, 2012) have shown that Lunella coronata represents a complex of cryptic species requiring further study.

Turbo Linnaeus, 1758 . Type species (s.d. Montfort 1810): Turbo petholatus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Subgenus Euninella Cotton, 1939 . Type species (m.): Turbo gruneri Philippi, 1846 .