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Liotina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Trochoidea

Subfamily
  
Liotiinae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Liotiidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

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Similar
  
Liotia, Cyclostrema, Angaria, Latirus, Arene

Liotina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.

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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 Smith, 1880
  • Liotina crenata (Kiener, 1839)
  • Liotina cycloma Tomlin, 1918
  • Liotina fijiensis Pilsbry, 1934
  • 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)

    • Further species

  • 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

    Liotina Wikipedia
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