Microliotia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pickworthiidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Microliotia Boettger, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391580 on 2021-07-24
Description (Original description in Latin) The shell is trochiform (top-shaped) and very thick. The apex is mucronate and stiliform, tapering into a sharp, needle-like point. The base is flattened, while the aperture is very small, highly oblique, and circular in shape. This opening is positioned almost horizontally. Finally, the lip is extremely thick and very widely expanded.
Species Microliotia alvanioides Le Renard & Bouchet, 2003 † Microliotia brandenburgi O. Boettger, 1902 Microliotia fenestrata Kase, 1998 Microliotia hawaiiensis Kase, 1998 † Microliotia imperfecta Lozouet, 2024 Microliotia koizumii Kase, 1998 Microliotia mactanensis Kase, 1998 Microliotia mirabilis (Kuroda & Habe, 1991) Microliotia ohashii Kase, 1998 Microliotia pumilis Kase, 1998 Microliotia rehderi Kase & Raines, 2017 Microliotia suturalis Kase, 1998 Micr†oliotia wargnieri Kase & Letourneux, 2013
References
Kuroda, T. & Habe, T. (1991). Two new genera and species of gastropods from Tokunoshima in Amami Islands, south of Kyushu, Japan. Venus. 50(3): 175–178. Janssen, R. (2004). The family Pickworthiidae in the Miocene of the Paratethys. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Festschrift zu Ehren Von Prof. Dr. Fritz F. Steininger: Beiträge zum Neogen der Paläotethys. 246: 169-186