Liotina
# Liotina

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

## Description

The solid, cancellated shell has a subdiscoidal shape. Its umbilicus is large, with a spiral funiculum. The aperture is not nacreous. The peristome is varicose, reflected and sub-bilabiate.

## Distribution

This marine species occurs off New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia; in the tropical Indo-West Pacific; off Fiji, East India and Japan.

## Species

Species within the genus Liotina include:

* Liotina crassibasis Smith, 1880
* Liotina crenata (Kiener, 1839)
* Liotina cycloma Tomlin, 1918
* Liotina fijiensis Pilsbry, 1934
* †Liotina gervilii (Defrance, 1818)
* Liotina hermanni (Dunker, 1869)
* Liotina montamarina Okutani, 2001
* Liotina peronii (Kiener, 1839)
* Liotina semiclathratula (Schrenck, 1862 in 1862-63)
* Liotina solidula (Gould, 1859)
* Liotina tantilla (A. Adams, 1863)
* †Liotina turua Maxwell, 1978

Further species

* Liotina depressa(Reeve, 1843)
* Liotina loculosa (Gould, 1859)
* Liotina mayana (Tate)
* Liotina subquadrata T. Woods
* Liotina tasmanica (Tenison-Woods, 1875)
* Liotina varicosa Reeve, 1843
* Liotina voyi Pilsbry and Vanatta, 1905

### Species brought into synonymy

* Liotina armata A. Adams, 1861: synonym of Bathyliotina armata (A. Adams, 1861)
* Liotina australis Kiener, 1839: synonym of Austroliotia australis (Kiener, 1839)
* Liotina scalaroides Reeve, 1834: synonym of Liotinaria scalarioides Reeve, 1843
