''Babylonia'' is a

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of sea snails, marine gastropod

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s in the

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Babyloniidae Babyloniidae is a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks unassigned within the superfamily Neogastropoda. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971. Accessed through: World R ...

Species

According to the

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(WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus ''Babylonia'':WoRMS : ''Babylonia''; accessed : 29 December 2010
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* '' Babylonia ambulacrum'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) * '' Babylonia areolata'' (Link, 1807) * '' Babylonia borneensis'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1864) * '' Babylonia feicheni'' Shikama, 1973 * '' Babylonia formosae'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1866) * '' Babylonia japonica'' (Reeve, 1842) * '' Babylonia kirana'' Habe, 1965 * † '' Babylonia leonis'' van Regteren Altena & Gittenberger, 1972 * '' Babylonia lutosa'' (Lamarck, 1816) * '' Babylonia perforata'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870) * '' Babylonia pieroangelai'' Cossignani, 2008 * '' Babylonia spirata'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * '' Babylonia umbilifusca'' Gittenberger & Goud, 2003 * '' Babylonia valentiana'' (Swainson, 1822) * '' Babylonia zeylanica'' (Bruguière, 1789)
The following species were brought into synonymy: * '' Babylonia habei'' van Regteren Altena & Gittenberger, 1981 * '' Babylonia hongkongensis'' Lai & Guo, 2010 * '' Babylonia lani'' Gittenberger & Goud, 2003 * '' Babylonia magnifica'' Fraussen & Stratmann, 2005 * '' Babylonia pallida'' Kira, 1959 * '' Babylonia pallida'' Hirase, 1934 * '' Babylonia papillaris'' (Sowerby I, 1825) * '' Babylonia pintado'' Kilburn, 1971 * '' Babylonia pulchrelineata'' Kilburn, 1973 * '' Babylonia rosadoi'' Bozzetti, 1998 * '' Babylonia tessellata'' (Swainson, 1823)

References

External links

* Altena C. O. van Regteren & Gittenberger E. (1981). "The genus ''Babylonia'' (Prosobranchia: Buccinidae)". ''

Zoologische Verhandelingen ''Zoologische Verhandelingen'' was a Dutch scientific journal covering research in zoology. It was published between 1948 and 2002 by the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) ...

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* Gittenberger E. & Goud J. (2003). "The genus ''Babylonia revisited'' (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Buccinidae)". ''

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