# Lunella

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
{{About|a genus of gastropods|the form of birth control|Estradiol cypionate/medroxyprogesterone acetate|the [Alpine](/source/Alps) mountain|Punta Lunella}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Lunella granulata 002.jpg
|image_caption = Two [shells](/source/gastropod_shell) of ''[Lunella granulata](/source/Lunella_granulata)''
|taxon = Lunella
|authority = [Röding](/source/R%C3%B6ding), 1798{{No-gastropod-genus-ref}}
|synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" />
|synonyms =
* ''Lunella (Lunella)'' <small>Röding, 1798</small>
* ''Lunella (Ninella)'' <small>Gray, 1850</small>
* ''Lunella (Subninella)'' <small>Thiele, 1929</small>
* ''Ninella'' <small>Gray, 1850</small>
* ''Subninella'' <small>Thiele, 1929</small>
* ''Turbo (Lunella)'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> <small>(rank change)</small>
|type_species = ''Turbo versicolor''
|type_species_authority = Gmelin, 1791
|display_parents= 3
}}

'''''Lunella''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [sea snail](/source/sea_snail)s, [marine](/source/marine_(ocean)) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Turbinidae](/source/Turbinidae), the turban snails.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|203942|''Lunella'' Röding, 1798||10 October 2011}}</ref>

The Australian Faunal Directory classifies ''Lunella'' as ''Turbo (Lunella)'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> <ref>[http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Turbo_(Lunella)/names Australian Faunal Directory: ''Turbo (Lunella)'']</ref>

==Species==
Species within the genus ''Lunella'' include:
* ''[Lunella cinerea](/source/Lunella_cinerea)'' <small>(Born, 1778)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|413413|''Lunella cinerea'' (Born, 1778)||20 April 2010}}</ref>
* ''[Lunella coronata](/source/Lunella_coronata)'' <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|216363|''Lunella coronata'' (Gmelin, 1791)||20 April 2010}}</ref>
* ''[Lunella correensis](/source/Lunella_correensis)'' <small>(Récluz, 1853)</small><ref name="Récluz 1853">[http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15859412 Récluz, C. A. (1853). Description de coquilles nouvelles (Genres Turbo, Triton et Mitra). Journal de Conchyliologie. 4: 49-54]</ref>
* ''[Lunella granulata](/source/Lunella_granulata)'' <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|413415|''Lunella granulata'' (Gmelin, 1791)||20 April 2010}}</ref>
* ''[Lunella jungi](/source/Lunella_jungi)'' <small>(Lai, 2006)</small>
* ''[Lunella moniliformis](/source/Lunella_moniliformis)'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> 
* ''[Lunella ogasawarana](/source/Lunella_ogasawarana)'' <small>Tomoyulo Nakano, Kyoko Takashashi & Tomowo Ozawa, 2007</small><ref>{{WRMS species|458394|''Lunella ogasawarana'' Tomoyulo Nakano, Kyoko Takashashi & Tomowo Ozawa, 2007||20 April 2010}}</ref>
* ''[Lunella smaragda](/source/Lunella_smaragda)'' <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|413416|''Lunella smaragdus'' (Gmelin, 1791)||20 April 2010}}</ref>
* ''[Lunella torquata](/source/Lunella_torquata)'' <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|413411|''Lunella (Ninella) torquata'' (Gmelin, 1791)||20 April 2010}}</ref>
* ''[Lunella undulata](/source/Lunella_undulata)'' <small>(Lightfoot, 1786)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|579271 |''Lunella (Subninella) undulata'' (Lightfoot, 1786)||10 October 2011}}</ref>
* ''[Lunella viridicallus](/source/Lunella_viridicallus)'' <small>(Jousseaume, 1898)</small>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp
* Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). {{ISBN|0-915826-22-4}}. XII, 195 pp.
* Williams, S.T. (2007). ''Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae)''. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592

==External links==
{{Commons category|Lunella}}
* [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp.]
* [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632090 Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp.&nbsp;63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847)]
* [http://|https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00854.x Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592]

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