Bathyliotina

Bathyliotina
Two views of a shell of Bathyliotina glassi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Subfamily: Liotiinae
Genus: Bathyliotina
Habe, 1961
Type species
Liotina armata A. Adams, 1861

Bathyliotina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.[1]

Description

The typical characteristics of this genus are:[2]

  • the thick shell is broader than high.
  • the opening of the deep umbilicus is rather broad.
  • the sculpture shows many blunt spines at its periphery.
  • the outer lip is expanded to a considerable extent, formed by decreasing lamellar layers.

Species

References

  1. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2013). Bathyliotina Habe, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737790 on 2013-08-25
  2. ↑ James McLean (1988) Two New Species of Liotiinae (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) from the Philippine Islands; The Veliger v.30 (1987-1988)
  • Habe 1961, Coloured illustrations of the shells of Japan (1962 edition) Vol.2: 13; appendix, p. 5,13.


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