Lovellona is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]
| Lovellona | |
|---|---|
| |
| Lovellona peaseana Finlay, 1927 ; family Mitromorphidae; Philippines | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mitromorphidae |
| Genus: | Lovellona Iredale, 1917 |
| Type species | |
| Conus atramentosus Reeve, 1849
| |
| Species | |
|
See text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
|
Mitromorpha (Lovellona) Iredale, 1917 | |
Description
editLovellona reproduce sexually. "Dead Lovellona form shallow marine sediments".[2]
Species
editAccording to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with a valid name are included within the genus Lovellona:[1]
- 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
edit- ^ a b c 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
- ^ "Lovellona - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- 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
edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lovellona.
- 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
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
- Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mitromorphidae