Liotia echinacantha

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Liotia echinacantha
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Original drawing of a shell of Liotia echinacantha
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Liotia
Species:
L. echinacantha
Binomial name
Liotia echinacantha
Melvill & Standen, 1903

Liotia echinacantha is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae. [1] [2]

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Description

The height of the shell attains 6 mm and the diameter 7.5 mm. The strong, globose shell is narrowly and deeply umbilicate. It has the color of pale straw. The shell contains four whorls. The apical one is depressed. The characteristic scaly spines are hollow, fluted and cover profusely the surface. They are thrice-ranked on the penultimate whorl and six-ranked on the body whorl. Three of them are conspicuous, more particularly the one in both whorls just below the sutures. The three rows around the umbilicus are not so highly developed. The aperture is round. The horny operculum is multispiral. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf.

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References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2012). Liotia echinacantha Melvill & Standen, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701870 on 2012-12-03
  2. ↑ Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
  3. ↑ Melvill c& Standen (1903), Descriptions of 68 new gastropoda from the Red Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Northern Arabian Sea; The Annals and magazine of natural history 7th ser. v. 12 (1903)
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