Livonia (gastropod)

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

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

See text

Synonyms
  • Cottonia Iredale, 1934
  • Mamillana Crosse, 1871 (nvalid: junior objective synonym of Livonia)

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

References
  1. Gray J. E. (1855). List Moll. Coll. Brit. Mus. 1, Volut., 8.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Livonia Gray, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382336 on 2022-06-21
  • 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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