Lotoria lotoria Temporal range:
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A shell of Lotoria lotoria with the periostracum removed | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cymatiidae |
Genus: | Lotoria |
Species: | L. lotoria
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Binomial name | |
Lotoria lotoria (Linnaeus, 1758)
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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]