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Genus of gastropods

Liotia
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Liotia echinacantha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Subfamily: Liotiinae
Genus: Liotia
Gray, 1842
Type species
Delphinula cancellata Gray, 1828

Liotia is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.

Liotia is the type genus of the family Liotiidae.

Description

The species in this genus are small to minute. They have a depressed or turbinate shape. They are all umbilicated with a nacreous inner layer. The thickened outer lip, attached to the body whorl for a short length, is continuous. Where the operculum has been stated, it is horny and multispiral.

Species

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Gray (1842). Syn. Cont. Brit. Mus. ed. 44: 57.
  2. Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Liotia Gray, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415570 on 2013-09-07
  3. West American species of the genus Liotia; Transactions of The San Diego Society For Natural History vol. 7 (1934)
  4. Hedley, C. 1901. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26: 16-25 (8, pl. 2, figs 4-6)
  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0.
Taxon identifiers
Liotia
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