Lotoria lotoria

Lotoria lotoria
Temporal range: Eocene - Recent
A shell of Lotoria lotoria with the periostracum removed
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cymatiidae
Genus: Lotoria
Species:
L. lotoria
Binomial name
Lotoria lotoria
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Cymatium (Lotoria) lotorium (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cymatium lotorium (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cymatium rhinoceros P.F. Röding, 1798[1]
  • Murex lotorium Linnaeus, 1758
  • Triton distortum Lamarck, 1816

Lotoria lotoria, common name the black-spotted snail or washing bath triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a tropical marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cymatiidae. This species was previously known as Cymatium lotorium.[2]

  1. ^ WMSDB
  2. ^ Lotoria lotoria (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.