Liotina crenata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[2]
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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| Species: | L. crenata
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| Liotina crenata (Kiener, 1839)
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Description
editThe 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
editThis species occurs in the Indian Ocean off the Aldabra Atoll; in the Pacific 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.