Livonia (gastropod)

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Livonia
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shell of Livonia mammilla
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Cymbiinae
Tribe: Livoniini
Genus: Livonia
Gray, 1855 [1]
Type species
Voluta mammillaG. B. Sowerby I, 1844
species

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Synonyms
  • CottoniaIredale, 1934
  • MamillanaCrosse, 1871 (nvalid: junior objective synonym of Livonia)

Livonia is a genus of medium-sized Indo-Pacific predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [2]

Contents

The genus belongs to the clade Livoniini, which is usually placed in the subfamily Cymbiinae (but sometimes in the Fulgorariinae instead).

Species

Species within the genus Livonia include:

Synonyms

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References

  1. Gray J. E. (1855). List Moll. Coll. Brit. Mus.1, Volut., 8.
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Livonia Gray, 1855". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-11-29.