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

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

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

According 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

• 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

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