Liotella

Taxobox
name = "Liotella"
fossil_range =


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Liotella"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1915
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

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

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 . 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.

Distribution

south eastern Australia and New Zealand.

pecies within the genus "Liotella"

* "Liotella annulata"
* "Liotella aupouria" Powell, 1937
* "Liotella compacta"
* "Liotella constricta"
* "Liotella elegans darwinensis"
* "Liotella endevourensis"
* "Liotella indigens" Finlay, 1927
* "Liotella mackenae" Dell, 1956
* "Liotella petalifera"
* "Liotella polypleura" (Hedley, 1904)
* "Liotella rotula" (Suter, 1908)

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/14732799 GBIF]