Liotina Explained
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.[1]
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 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
Further species [2]
- 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:
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
Notes and References
- https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/77914 G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Liotina Discover Life : Liotina
