{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Lotoria grandimaculatum.jpg | image_caption = ''Lotoria grandimaculata'' shell | taxon = Lotoria | authority = Emerson & Old, 1963<ref>Emerson & Old (1963). ''Am. Mus. Novit.'' No. 2137: 4.</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = ''Cymatium'' (''Lotoria'') <small>Emerson & Old, 1963</small> | type_species = ''Lotoria perryi'' <small>(Emerson & Old, 1963)</small> }}
'''''Lotoria''''' is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|463520|''Lotoria'' Emerson & Old, 1963||5 December 2018}}</ref>
==Description== The triangular whorls are coronated. The aperture is longer than the spire. The outer lip is dentated internally.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650 Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls]</ref>
==Distribution== This genus occurs in the Indo-West Pacific and off the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Marquesas Islands and Australia (Queensland)
==Species== Species within the genus ''Lotoria'' include: * ''Lotoria armata'' <small>(G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|476509|''Lotoria armata'' (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)||27 June 2010}}</ref> * ''Lotoria grandimaculata'' <small>(Reeve, 1844)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|476510|''Lotoria grandimaculata'' (Reeve, 1844)||27 June 2010}}</ref> * ''Lotoria lotoria'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|476511|''Lotoria lotoria'' (Linnaeus, 1758)||27 June 2010}}</ref> * ''Lotoria triangularis'' <small>(Perry, 1811)</small> ;Synonyms: * ''Lotoria perryi'' <small>(Emerson & Old, 1963)</small>:<ref>{{WRMS species|476512|''Lotoria perryi'' (Emerson & Old, 1963)||27 June 2010}}</ref> synonym of ''Lotoria triangularis'' <small>(Perry, 1811)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp. * Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. * Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris * Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120
==External links== {{Commons category}} * [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/4423 Emerson W.K. & Old W.E. (1963). A new subgenus and species of Cymatium (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ''American Museum Novitates''. 2137: 1-13.]
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Category:Cymatiidae Category:Taxa named by William Keith Emerson
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