Liotina

Liotina
Liotina peronii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Trochoidea
Family:
Liotiidae
Subfamily:
Liotiinae
Genus:
Liotina

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

  1. ^ Liotina Munier-Chalmas, 1885. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 04/22/10.
  2. ^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  3. ^ Liotina crenata (Kiener, 1839). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  4. ^ Liotina montamarina Okutani, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  5. ^ Discover Life : Liotina
  • 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.