| Bathyliotina | |
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| 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 | |
Bathyliotina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.
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
- Rosenberg, G. (2013). Bathyliotina Habe, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737790 on 2013-08-25
- James McLean (1988) Two New Species of Liotiinae (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) from the Philippine Islands; The Veliger v.30 (1987-1988)
- Habe 1961, Coloured illustrations of the shells of Japan (1962 edition) Vol.2: 13; appendix, p. 5,13.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Bathyliotina | |
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