Liotina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.[1]
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.[2]
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:
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Liotina crassibasis Smith, 1880
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Liotina crenata (Kiener, 1839)[3]
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Liotina cycloma Tomlin, 1918
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Liotina fijiensis Pilsbry, 1934
- †Liotina gervilii (Defrance, 1818)
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Liotina hermanni (Dunker, 1869)
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Liotina montamarina Okutani, 2001[4]
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Liotina peronii (Kiener, 1839)
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Liotina semiclathratula (Schrenck, 1862 in 1862-63)
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Liotina solidula (Gould, 1859)
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Liotina tantilla (A. Adams, 1863)
- †Liotina turua Maxwell, 1978
Further species [5]
- Species brought into synonymy
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. 1–408
- Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506.
