Euspira fusca, common name the dark necklace shell, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]
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| Euspira fusca |
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Scientific classification  |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Mollusca |
| Class: |
Gastropoda |
| Subclass: |
Caenogastropoda |
| Order: |
Littorinimorpha |
| Family: |
Naticidae |
| Genus: |
Euspira |
| Species: |
E. fusca |
| Binomial name |
Euspira fusca
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| Synonyms[1] |
- Lunatia fusca (Blainville, 1825)
- Lunatia sordida (Philippi, 1836)
- Natica angulata Jeffreys, 1885
- Natica brocchiana Philippi, 1851
- Natica compacta Jeffreys, 1885
- Natica fusca Blainville, 1825 (original combination)
- Natica plicatula Reeve, 1855
- Natica sordida Philippi, 1844 (invalid: junior homonym of Natica sordida Swainson, 1821)
- Polinices (Lunatia) fusca (Blainville, 1825)
- Polinices (Lunatia) sordida (Blainville, 1825)
- Polinices fuscus (Blainville, 1825)
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This species occurs in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, European waters and the Mediterranean Sea.
- Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp
- Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates
- Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
- Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.
