Liotella annulata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae.[1]
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| Drawing with two views of a shell of Liotella annulata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Skeneidae |
| Genus: | Liotella |
| Species: | L. annulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Liotella annulata (Tenison-Woods, 1874)
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| Synonyms | |
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Liotia annulata Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879 | |
Description
editThe diameter of the shell is 1.5 mm. The opaque white shell has a planorbiform shape. It is flattened above, rounded below, with somewhat distant longitudinal lamellae, above and below. Otherwise it is smooth. The umbilicus is wide. One of the ring-like lamellae forms the peristome.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia and Tasmania.
References
edit- ^ Marshall, B. (2013). Liotella annulata (Tenison Woods, 1874). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720329 on 2013-10-25
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Liotia annulata)
- Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1877: 121-123
- Tate, R. 1899. A revision of the Australian Cyclostrematidae and Liotiidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 23(2): 213-229
- Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1902. Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria. Part V. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 14(2): 85-138
- Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp.
- Trew, A. 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
External links
edit- "Liotella annulata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.