Lovellona Explained

Lovellona is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitromorphidae.^[1]

Description

Lovellona reproduce sexually. "Dead Lovellona form shallow marine sediments".^[2]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (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
• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . PDF . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 .
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mitromorphidae

Notes and References

1. 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
2. Web site: Lovellona - Encyclopedia of Life. 2020-11-16. eol.org.