Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Cephalaspidea > Superfamily Philinoidea > Family Laonidae

Laona A. Adams, 1865

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ossiania*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Rhinodiaphana*	Lemche, 1967	synonym
*Utriculopsis*	M. Sars, 1870	synonym

Children

Laona condensa (van der Linden, 1995)
Laona confusa (Ohnheiser & Malaquias, 2013)
Laona grandioculi (Ohnheiser & Malaquias, 2013)
Laona pruinosa (W. Clark, 1827)
Laona quadrata (S. V. Wood, 1839)
Laona ventricosa (Jeffreys, 1865)
Laona vestita (R. A. Philippi, 1840)

Literature

original description	Adams, A. (1865). On some new genera of Mollusca from the seas of Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 15: 322-324 [April, 1865].
status source	Oskars T.R., Bouchet P. & Malaquias M.A. (2015). A new phylogeny of the Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) based on expanded taxon sampling and gene markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 89: 130-150.
status source	Ohnheiser, L. T.; Malaquias, M. (2013). Systematic revision of the gastropod family Philinidae (Mollusca: Cephalaspidea) in the north-east Atlantic Ocean with emphasis on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 167: 273-326.
status source	Moles J., Avila C. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2019). Unmasking Antarctic mollusc lineages: novel evidence from philinoid snails (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea). Cladistics. 35(5): 487-513.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Laona A. Adams, 1865. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138338