Litiopa

Updated on Dec 05, 2023

Edit

Comment

Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Litiopidae		Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Cerithioidea Rank Genus
Similar Liotina, Latirus, Cymatium, Lanistes, Cymatium pileare

Litiopa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Litiopidae.

Species

Species within the genus Litiopa include:

Litiopa melanostoma (Rang, 1829)

Litiopa nipponica Kuroda & Kawamoto, 1956

Litiopa tumescens (Thiele, 1925)

Species brought into synonymy

Litiopa bucciniformis Hornung & Mermod, 1926: synonym of Bittium proteum (Jousseaume, 1931)

Litiopa effusa C. B. Adams, 1850: synonym of Monoplex pilearis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Litiopa obesa C. B. Adams, 1850: synonym of Gutturnium muricinum (Röding, 1798)

Litiopa saxicola C. B. Adams, 1852: synonym of Elachisina saxicola (C. B. Adams, 1852)

(Text) CC BY-SA