''Liotina'' is a

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Liotiidae Liotiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2013). Liotiidae Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of ...

Description

The solid, cancellated shell has a subdiscoidal shape. Its umbilicus is large, with a spiral funiculum. The

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is not nacreous. The

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is varicose, reflected and sub-bilabiate.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

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; in the tropical Indo-West Pacific; off

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Species

Species within the genus ''Liotina'' include: * '' Liotina crassibasis'' Smith, 1880 * '' Liotina crenata'' (Kiener, 1839) * '' Liotina cycloma'' Tomlin, 1918 * '' Liotina fijiensis'' Pilsbry, 1934 * †'' Liotina gervilii'' (Defrance, 1818) * '' Liotina hermanni'' (Dunker, 1869) * '' Liotina montamarina'' Okutani, 2001 * '' Liotina peronii'' (Kiener, 1839) * '' Liotina semiclathratula'' (Schrenck, 1862 in 1862-63) * '' Liotina solidula'' (Gould, 1859) * '' Liotina tantilla'' (A. Adams, 1863) * †'' Liotina turua'' Maxwell, 1978 Liotina scalaroides 003

Further species Discover Life : Liotina
/ref> * '' Liotina depressa''(Reeve, 1843) * '' Liotina loculosa'' (Gould, 1859) * '' Liotina mayana'' (Tate) * '' Liotina subquadrata'' T. Woods * '' Liotina tasmanica'' (Tenison-Woods, 1875) * '' Liotina varicosa'' Reeve, 1843 * '' Liotina voyi'' Pilsbry and Vanatta, 1905 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Liotina armata'' A. Adams, 1861: synonym of '' Bathyliotina armata'' (A. Adams, 1861) * ''Liotina australis'' Kiener, 1839: synonym of '' Austroliotia australis'' (Kiener, 1839) * ''Liotina scalaroides'' Reeve, 1834: synonym of '' Liotinaria scalarioides'' Reeve, 1843

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.

External links

Charles F. Laseron, ''Revision of the Liotiidae of New South Wales'', The Australia Zoologist, Royal Zoological Society of new South Wales, v. 12, 1954
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