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Livonia
shell of Livonia mammilla
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Cymbiinae
Tribe:	Livoniini
Genus:	Livonia Gray, 1855
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)

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

Species

Species within the genus Livonia include:

• Livonia joerinkensi (Poppe, 1987)
• Livonia limpusi Bail, 1999
• Livonia mammilla (G. B. Sowerby I, 1844)
• Livonia mervcooperi Bail & Limpus, 2010
• Livonia nodiplicata (Cox, 1910)
• Livonia roadnightae (McCoy, 1881)

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. "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.

External links

• Iredale, T. (1934). Two new generic names for South Australian marine Mollusca. The South Australian Naturalist. 15(2): 57-58

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