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| Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Liotia echinacantha | |
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
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| Genus: | Liotia |
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| Delphinula cancellataGray, 1828 | |
Liotia is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae. [2]
Liotia is the type genus of the family Liotiidae.
The species in this genus are small to minute. They have a depressed or turbinate shape. They are all umbilicated with a nacreous inner layer. The thickened outer lip, attached to the body whorl for a short length, is continuous. Where the operculum has been stated, it is horny and multispiral. [3]
Calliostoma is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails with gills and an operculum, marine gastropod molluscs within the family Calliostomatidae, the Calliostoma top snails. Previously this genus was placed within the family Trochidae. Calliostoma is the type genus of the family Calliostomatidae.
Liotella is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Skeneidae.
Liotiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.
Ocenebra is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the family Muricidae, the murex and rock snails.
Clathrodrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Cymatosyrinx is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Drillia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Daphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Mangelia is a large genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Arene is a genus of small sea snails that have a calcareous operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Areneidae.
Anachis is a large genus of sea snails in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
Cyclostrema is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.
Minolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.
Rissoina is a large genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks, in the family Rissoinidae.
Opalia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.
Eulima is a genus of small, ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.
Cerithiopsis is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cerithiopsidae.
Turbonilla is a large genus of ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Cyclostremiscus is a genus of small sea snails in the family Tornidae.