Liotina
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| Liotina peronii | |
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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| Genus: | Liotina Munier-Chalmas, 1885
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| Liotina gervillei Defrance | |
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Liotina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.[1]
Description
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Species within the genus Liotina include:
- Liotina crassibasis Smith, 1880
- Liotina crenata (Kiener, 1839)[3]
- Liotina cycloma Tomlin, 1918
- Liotina fijiensis Pilsbry, 1934
- †Liotina gervilii (Defrance, 1818)
- Liotina hermanni (Dunker, 1869)
- Liotina montamarina Okutani, 2001[4]
- 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 [5]
- 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
[edit]- ^ Liotina Munier-Chalmas, 1885. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 04/22/10.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- ^ Liotina crenata (Kiener, 1839). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- ^ Liotina montamarina Okutani, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- ^ 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.