Lyria grangei

Lyria grangei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Lyria
Species:
L. grangei
Binomial name
Lyria grangei
Cernohorsky, 1980

Lyria grangei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Description

This operculated species attains a length of 71+ mm.

Distribution

New Caledonia. Lyria grangei occurs in shallow waters of the Bellona Plateau of the Coral Sea. The type series was collected on a small submerged pinnacle in the southern sides of east South Bellona on sand at (Holotype, Paratype 1), in the peripheral reef slope of northwestern margins of western South Bellona at a depth of 17 meters (Paratype 2), and from the south side of the lagoon in western South Bellona (Paratype 3).[2]

References

  1. ^ Lyria grangei Cernohorsky, 1980. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  2. ^ Cernohorsky, W. O. (1980). "Systematics of Some West Pacific Lyria (Mollusca: Volutidae) with Description of a New Species". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 17: 127–134. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906290. Wikidata Q58677142.


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