''Lovellona'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s, marine
gastropod
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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.Bouchet, P. (2011). Mitromorphidae Casey, 1904. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marin ...
.
[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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