''Lovellona'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s, marine
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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Mitromorphidae
Mitromorphidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea
Conoidea is a Taxonomic rank, superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusc, mo ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2011). Lovellona Iredale, 1917. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428916 on 2018-02-07]
Description
Lovellona reproduce sexually. "Dead Lovellona form shallow marine sediments".
Species
According to the
World Register of Marine Species
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(WoRMS), the following species with a valid name are included within the genus ''Lovellona'':
* ''
Lovellona atramentosa''
(Reeve, 1849)
* ''
Lovellona biconus''
Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2009
* ''
Lovellona carbonaria''
Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2009
* ''
Lovellona elongata''
Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2009
* ''
Lovellona grandis''
Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2009
* ''
Lovellona peaseana''
Finlay, 1927
References
Iredale, Tom. "More molluscan name-changes, generic and specific." Journal of Molluscan Studies 12.6 (1917): 322-330* Chino, M. & Stahlschmidt, P., 2009. - ''New turrid species of the Mitromorpha-complex (Gastropoda: Clathurellinae) from the Philippines and Japan''. Visaya: 63-82
External links
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308*
Gastropod genera
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