Liotia is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.[2]

Liotia
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Liotia echinacantha
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Liotia

Gray, 1842[1]
Type species
Delphinula cancellata Gray, 1828

Liotia is the type genus of the family Liotiidae.

Description

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The species in this genus are small to minute. They have a depressed or turbinate shape. They are all umbilicated with a nacreous inner layer. The thickened outer lip, attached to the body whorl for a short length, is continuous. Where the operculum has been stated, it is horny and multispiral.[3]

Species

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Species brought into synonymy

References

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  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0.