Austroliotia australis

Austroliotia australis
Drawing of a shell of Austroliotia australis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Austroliotia
Species: A. australis
Binomial name
Austroliotia australis
(Kiener, 1839)
Synonyms

Liotina australis Kiener, 1839

Austroliotia australis, common name the southern liotia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1]

Description

The height of the shell attains 14 mm. The white shell is rather widely umbilicated. The rounded whorls contain spiral riblets and longitudinal striae. A beaded riblet winds into the umbilicus. The peristome is varicose. The inner margin is produced below and above.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the subtidal zone off Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia) and Tasmania.

References

  1. ↑ Austroliotia australis (Kiener, 1839).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 August 2013.
  2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • Cotton, B. C. (1959). South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Adelaide. : W.L. Hawes. 449 pp., 1 pl.
  • Jenkins, B.W. (1984). Southern Australian Liotiidae. Australian Shell News. 47 : 3-5
  • Wilson, B. (1993). Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing. Vol.1 1st Edn pp. 1–408.
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