Microliotia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pickworthiidae.
Description
(Original description in Latin) The shell is trochiform (top-shaped) and very thick. The apex is mucronate and stiliform, tapering into a sharp, needle-like point. The base is flattened, while the aperture is very small, highly oblique, and circular in shape. This opening is positioned almost horizontally. Finally, the lip is extremely thick and very widely expanded.
Species
- Microliotia alvanioides <small>Le Renard & Bouchet, 2003</small>
- â Microliotia brandenburgi <small>O. Boettger, 1902</small>
- Microliotia fenestrata <small>Kase, 1998</small>
- Microliotia hawaiiensis <small>Kase, 1998</small>
- â Microliotia imperfecta <small>Lozouet, 2024</small>
- Microliotia koizumii <small>Kase, 1998</small>
- Microliotia mactanensis <small>Kase, 1998</small>
- Microliotia mirabilis <small>(Kuroda & Habe, 1991)</small>
- Microliotia ohashii <small>Kase, 1998</small>
- Microliotia pumilis <small>Kase, 1998</small>
- Microliotia rehderi <small>Kase & Raines, 2017</small>
- Microliotia suturalis <small>Kase, 1998</small>
- Micrâ oliotia wargnieri <small>Kase & Letourneux, 2013</small>
References
- Kuroda, T. & Habe, T. (1991). Two new genera and species of gastropods from Tokunoshima in Amami Islands, south of Kyushu, Japan. Venus. 50(3): 175âÂÂ178.
- Janssen, R. (2004). The family Pickworthiidae in the Miocene of the Paratethys. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Festschrift zu Ehren Von Prof. Dr. Fritz F. Steininger: Beiträge zum Neogen der Paläotethys. 246: 169-186