Liotina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.
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.G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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) Liotina cycloma Tomlin, 1918 Liotina fijiensis Pilsbry, 1934 †Liotina gervilii (Defrance, 1818) Liotina hermanni (Dunker, 1869) Liotina montamarina Okutani, 2001 Liotina peronii (Kiener, 1839) Liotina semiclathratula (Schrenck, 1862 in 1862-63) Liotina solidula (Gould, 1859) Liotina tantilla (A. Adams, 1863) †Liotina turua Maxwell, 1978
Further species Discover Life : Liotina 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.
External links Charles F. Laseron, Revision of the Liotiidae of New South Wales, The Australia Zoologist, Royal Zoological Society of new South Wales, v. 12, 1954