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Livonia (gastropod)

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Livonia
shell of Livonia mammilla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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 mammilla G. B. Sowerby I, 1844
species

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Synonyms
  • Cottonia Iredale, 1934
  • Mamillana Crosse, 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]

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

Species

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Species within the genus Livonia include:

Synonyms
  • Livonia quisqualis Iredale, 1957: synonym of Livonia roadnightae (McCoy, 1881)

References

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  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.
  • Bail, P.; Poppe, G.T. (2001). A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.
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