| 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 gervilleiDefrance | |
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GlobareneIredale, 1929 | |
Liotina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae. [1]
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]
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 within the genus Liotina include:
Further species [5]
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Buccinum is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
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Acmaea is a genus of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Acmaeidae, one of the families of true limpets.
Clanculus is a genus of sea snail, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.
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Liotia is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.
Mangelia is a large genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Engina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pisaniidae.
Aesopus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
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Monilea is a genus of sea snails in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Monodonta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
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