Liotina

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| image = Liotina peronii 003.jpg

| image_caption = Liotina peronii

| taxon = Liotina

| authority = Munier-Chalmas, 1885{{No-gastropod-genus-ref}}

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms = Globarene Iredale, 1929

| type_species= Liotina gervillei Defrance

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Liotina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.{{WRMS species|413462|Liotina Munier-Chalmas, 1885||04/22/10}}

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.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/77914 G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia]

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:

File:Liotina scalaroides 003.jpg

Further species [http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Liotina Discover Life : Liotina]

;Species brought into synonymy:

References

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  • 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.