Leucozonia

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Buccinoidea Subfamily Peristerniinae Rank Genus		Class Gastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Phylum Mollusca
Similar Latirus, Fasciolariidae, Dolicholatirus, Fasciolaria, Opeatostoma pseudodon

Leucozonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.

Species

Species within the genus Leucozonia include:

Leucozonia cerata (Wood, 1828)

Leucozonia granulilabris (Vermeij & Snyder, 2004)

Leucozonia leucozonalis (Lamarck, 1822)

Leucozonia nassa (Gmelin, 1791) - type species

Leucozonia ocellata (Gmelin, 1791)

Leucozonia ponderosa Vermeij & Snyder, 1998

Leucozonia rudis (Reeve, 1847)

Leucozonia triserialis (Lamarck, 1822)

Leucozonia tuberculata (Broderip, 1833)

fossil species:

Leucozonia rhomboidea (Gabb, 1873) from the Gurabo Formation (early Pliocene) of the Dominican Republic

Leucozonia striatula Vermeij, 1997, from the Cercado (late Miocene) and basal Gurabo Formations of the Dominican Republic

synonyms:

Leucozonia smaragdula (Linnaeus, 1758) is a synonym of Latirolagena smaragdula (Linnaeus, 1758)

References

Leucozonia Wikipedia

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