Liotina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.
Description
The solid, cancellated shell has a subdiscoidal shape. Its umbilicus is large, with a spiral funiculum. The aperture is not nacreous. The peristome is varicose, reflected and sub-bilabiate.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia; in the tropical Indo-West Pacific; off Fiji, East India and Japan.
Species
Species within the genus Liotina include:
- Liotina crassibasis <small>Smith, 1880</small>
- Liotina crenata (Kiener, 1839)
- Liotina cycloma <small>Tomlin, 1918</small>
- Liotina fijiensis <small>Pilsbry, 1934</small>
- â Liotina gervilii <small>(Defrance, 1818)</small>
- Liotina hermanni <small>(Dunker, 1869)</small>
- Liotina montamarina Okutani, 2001
- Liotina peronii <small>(Kiener, 1839)</small>
- Liotina semiclathratula <small>(Schrenck, 1862 in 1862-63)</small>
- Liotina solidula <small>(Gould, 1859)</small>
- Liotina tantilla <small>(A. Adams, 1863)</small>
- â Liotina turua <small>Maxwell, 1978</small>
Further species
Species brought into synonymy:
- Liotina armata <small>A. Adams, 1861</small>: synonym of Bathyliotina armata <small>(A. Adams, 1861)</small>
- Liotina australis<small> Kiener, 1839</small>: synonym of Austroliotia australis <small>(Kiener, 1839)</small>
- Liotina scalaroides <small>Reeve, 1834</small>: synonym of Liotinaria scalarioides <small>Reeve, 1843</small>
References
- Munier-Chalmas in Fischer, 1885, in P. Fischer, Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, (9): 831.
- Iredale, 1929, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 9(3): 274.
- Wilson, B. (1993). Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing. Vol.1 1st Edn pp. 1âÂÂ408
- Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483âÂÂ506.
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