Liotella

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Liotella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Cyclostrematidae
Genus: Liotella
Iredale, 1915
Species

See text.

Liotella is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Contents

[edit] Description

The shells are small, thin, and white, resembling Brookula in their style of sculpture, but always with a depressed spire, sometimes discoid or even sunken. The shell is more or less loosely coiled, sometimes scalariform. The sculpture is of strong axials, with weak to obsolete spiral lirae in the interstices. There is a wide umbilicate, and a thin, round, complete peristome.

[edit] Distribution

south eastern Australia and New Zealand.

[edit] Species within the genus Liotella

[edit] References