Lyria grangei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
Lyria grangei | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Lyria |
Species: | L. grangei
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Binomial name | |
Lyria grangei Cernohorsky, 1980
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Description
editThis operculated species attains a length of 60+ mm.
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Distribution
editLyria 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
edit- ^ Lyria grangei Cernohorsky, 1980. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ^ 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.