- Source: Liotina
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.
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
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