Livonia (gastropod)

Livonia
shell of Livonia mammilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Cymbiinae
Tribe: Livoniini
Bail & Poppe, 2001
Genus: Livonia
Gray, 1855[1]
species

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

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

Species

Species within the genus Livonia include:

References

  1. Gray J. E. (1855). List Moll. Coll. Brit. Mus. 1, Volut., 8.



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