Liotina semiclathratula

Liotina semiclathratula
Drawing with three views of a shell of Liotina semiclathratula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Liotina
Species: L. semiclathratula
Binomial name
Liotina semiclathratula
Schrenck, 1862

Liotina semiclathratula is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Liotiidae.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 5 mm and 15 mm. The whitish shell has a depressed turbinate shape. It is spirally costate,with the costae slightly tuberculate above. The suture is channeled. The outer lip is crenately varicose. The large umbilicus is bicarinate within and crenulately margined.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan, the Amur region and the Philippines.

References

External identifiers for Liotina semiclathratula
WoRMS 737879


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