Bathyliotina

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

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

Description

The typical characteristics of this genus are:

• 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

• Bathyliotina armata (A. Adams, 1861)
• Bathyliotina glassi McLean, 1988
• Bathyliotina lamellosa (Schepman, 1908)
• Bathyliotina nakayasui Habe, 1981
• Bathyliotina schepmani Habe, 1953

References

• Habe 1961, Coloured illustrations of the shells of Japan (1962 edition) Vol.2: 13; appendix, p. 5,13.