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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 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.
Distribution
south eastern Australia and New Zealand.
Species 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 (Hedley, 1904)
- Liotella polypleura
- 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
- GBIF