Lunularia Busk

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lunulitoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Bryozoa Classis: Gymnolaemata Ordo: Cheilostomata Subordo: Flustrina Superfamilia: Lunulitoidea

Familia: Lunulariidae
Genus: Lunularia
Species: L. capula – L. parvicella – L. repanda

Name

Lunularia Busk, 1884

Gender

feminine

Type species

• Lunulites capulus Busk, 1852, by monotypy

NOTE: according to Nomenclator Zoologicus, Lunularia was introduced as an emendation of Lunulites, but the correct interpretation of Busk (1884: 208) is unclear

References

cited sources

• Busk, G. 1884: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of the HMS Challenger during the years 1873-76 ... zoology part XXX. Her Majesty's Stationery Office: London.

Additional references

• Cook, P.L.; Chimonides, P.J. 1986: Recent and fossil Lunulitidae (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) 6. Lunulites sensu lato and the genus Lunularia from Australasia. Journal of natural history, 20: 681–705. DOI: 10.1080/00222938600770471
• Harmer, S.F. 1926: The Polyzoa of the Siboga Expedition, Pt. II, Cheilostomata Anasca. Siboga-Expeditie, Leiden, 28b: 181–501. [not seen]

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• www.bryozoa.net