Livonia (gastropod)

Livonia is a genus of medium-sized Indo-Pacific predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.^[2]

Livonia
shell of Livonia mammilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Cymbiinae
Tribe:	Livoniini
Genus:	Livonia Gray, 1855[1]
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)

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)