Falsilunatia

Taxobox
name = "Falsilunatia"
fossil_range =


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Naticoidea
familia = Naticidae
genus = "Falsilunatia"
genus_authority = Powell, 1951
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Falsilunatia" is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae known as moon shells.

The solid shells are small to moderate sized, globose, with a small umbilicus. They are white under a thin pale olive periostracum. The operculum is horny.

Their distribution is the Great Southern Ocean.

pecies within the genus "Falsilunatia"

* "Falsilunatia ambigua" (Suter)
* "Falsilunatia delicatula" Dell, 1990
* "Falsilunatia eltanini"
* "Falsilunatia fartilis"
* "Falsilunatia notorcadensis"
* "Falsilunatia pisum" (Hedley, 1916)
* "Falsilunatia powelli" Dell, 1956
* "Falsilunatia soluta"
* "Falsilunatia subperforata" Dell, 1956
* "Falsilunatia xantha" (Watson, 1881)

References

* Powell A. W. B. (1979), "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 0-00-216906-1