# Lotoria

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Lotoria grandimaculatum.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Lotoria grandimaculata](/source/Lotoria_grandimaculata)'' shell
| taxon = Lotoria
| authority = [Emerson](/source/William_Keith_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](/source/genus) of [predatory](/source/predatory) [sea snail](/source/sea_snail)s, [marine](/source/marine_(ocean)) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Cymatiidae](/source/Cymatiidae).<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|463520|''Lotoria'' Emerson & Old, 1963||5 December 2018}}</ref>

==Description==
The triangular [whorl](/source/Whorl_(mollusc))s are coronated. The [aperture](/source/Aperture_(gastropod)) is longer than the [spire](/source/Spire_(mollusc)). The outer [lip](/source/Lip_(gastropod)) 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](/source/Philippines), [Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea), the [Marquesas Islands](/source/Marquesas_Islands) and Australia ([Queensland](/source/Queensland))

==Species==
Species within the genus ''Lotoria'' include:
* ''[Lotoria armata](/source/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](/source/Lotoria_grandimaculata)'' <small>(Reeve, 1844)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|476510|''Lotoria grandimaculata'' (Reeve, 1844)||27 June 2010}}</ref>
* ''[Lotoria lotoria](/source/Lotoria_lotoria)'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|476511|''Lotoria lotoria'' (Linnaeus, 1758)||27 June 2010}}</ref>
* ''[Lotoria triangularis](/source/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](/source/Lotoria_triangularis)'' <small>(Perry, 1811)</small>

==References==
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* 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==
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* [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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