Liotina

Liotina
Liotina peronii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Subfamily: Liotiinae
Genus: Liotina
Munier-Chalmas, 1885
Type species
Liotina gervillei Defrance
Synonyms

Globarene Iredale, 1929

Liotina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.[1]

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.[2]

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 scalaroides

Further species [5]

Species brought into synonymy

References

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