About Lunella cinerea (Born, 1778)
Lunella cinerea (Born, 1778) has a shell that measures between 20 mm and 50 mm in size. Its shell is solid and umbilicate, with a depressed-globose shape and prominent spiral sculpture. The spire is obtuse, and the suture is slightly undulating. The species has five whorls that are spirally lirate, with smaller lirulae located in the interstices between the larger spiral ridges. This species is distributed across the tropical Indo-West Pacific region; it can be found off the Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, the Philippines, in the Red Sea, and off the coasts of Australia’s Northern Territory, Queensland, and Western Australia.
