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

Laona ventricosa (Jeffreys, 1865)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Amphisphyra Lovén, 1846

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Laona*	A. Adams, 1865	accepted genus name
*Ossiania*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Rhinodiaphana*	Lemche, 1967	synonym
*Utriculopsis*	M. Sars, 1870	synonym

Species group names

*Philine velutinoides*	G. O. Sars, 1878	synonym
*Philine ventricosa*	(Jeffreys, 1865)	synonym
*Rhinodiaphana ventricosa*	(Jeffreys, 1865)	synonym
*Utriculus ventrosus*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym

Literature

new combination reference	Moles J., Avila C. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2018 [nomenclatural availability: 2017]). Systematic revision of the Antarctic gastropod family Newnesiidae (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) with the description of a new genus and a new abyssal species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(4): 763-775.
original description (unavailable nomenclaturally)	Jeffreys, J. G. (1858). Gleanings in British Conchology. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3)1: 39-48, pl. 2; (3)2: 117-133, pl. 5.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Laona ventricosa (Jeffreys, 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:1348912