Liotina Munier-Chalmas 1885

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 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

Liotina scalaroides

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

• 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.