Liotina crenata
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Liotiidae |
| Genus: | Liotina |
| Species: | L. crenata |
| Binomial name | |
| Liotina crenata (Kiener, 1839) | |
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Liotina crenata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[2]
Description
The diameter of the shell is 15 mm. The depressed shell has a turbinate shape. The spire whorls are somewhat exserted, all showing a pair of peripheral keels, which are strongly, or subsipinosely crenulated. The whorls are encircled by a spiral series of granules above. The base of the shell is smooth. The umbilicus is of a moderate size, defined by a riblet. The peristome is strongly crenately varicose. The color of the shell is whitish, stained with chestnut.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off the Aldabra Atoll; in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines.
References
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- ^ Indo_pacific Molluscan Database
- ^ a b Liotina crenata (Kiener, 1839). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll.