Liotipoma wallisensis

Liotipoma wallisensis
Shells of Liotipoma wallisensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Colloniidae
Genus:	Liotipoma
Species:	L. wallisensis
Binomial name
Liotipoma wallisensis McLean & Kiel, 2007 [1]

Liotipoma wallisensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae. ^[2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 3.5 mm and 4.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Wallis Island, Polynesia.

References

1. McLean & Kiel (2007). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81 (3) : 254–266. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 19 April 2010.
2. Liotipoma wallisensis McLean & Kiel, 2007 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 April 2010.

• McLean J.H. & Kiel S. 2007. Cretaceous and living Colloniidae of the redefined subfamily Petropomatinae, with two new genera and one new species, with notes on opercular evolution in turbinoideans, and the fossil record of Liotiidae (Vetigastropoda: Turbinoidea). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81(3): 254-266

External links

• "Liotipoma wallisensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.