Liotia

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[1]
Type species
Delphinula cancellata Gray, 1828

Liotia is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.[2]

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.[3]

Species

Species brought into synonymy

References

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