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Euspira sp.

genus Euspira Agassiz, 1837

Invalid synonym: genus Lunatia

• Modern species: Middle Triassic - Present (242.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Gastropoda, order Littorinimorpha, family Naticidae

• Distribution
• Eocene-Oligocene: Fukuoka
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Ibaraki, Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Shiga, Nara, Okayama, Yamaguchi, Kagawa
• Pliocene: Niigata
• Pleistocene: Akita, Niigata, Toyama, Chiba

• Subtaxa
• E. meisensis
• E. pallida, Northern moon snail
• E. pila ovata