Liotina semiclathratula is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Liotiidae.[1]
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| Drawing with three views of a shell of Liotina semiclathratula | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Liotiidae |
| Genus: | Liotina |
| Species: | L. semiclathratula
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| Binomial name | |
| Liotina semiclathratula Schrenck, 1862
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Description
editThe 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
editThis marine species occurs off Japan, the Amur region and the Philippines.
References
edit- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2013). Liotina semiclathratula Schrenck, 1862. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737879 on 2013-08-29
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Notes
edit- Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999). Catalogue and bibliography of the marine shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Osaka. : Elle Scientific Publications. 749 pp.
External links
edit- World Register of Marine Species
- "Liotina semiclathratula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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