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Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liotella is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Skeneidae.[1]
| Liotella | |
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| Drawing with two views of a shell of Liotella annulata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Skeneidae |
| Genus: | Liotella Iredale, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Liotia polypleura Hedley, 1904 | |
The shells lack a thickened peristome. The shell is depressed. In some species the shell is coiled nearly into one plane, in others it is somewhat more elevated. The whorls are loosely coiled. The operculum is multispiral with a central nucleus. The sculpture shows strong transverse ribs. The spiral sculpture consists of fine lirae between the ribs or is sometimes almost or entirely obsolete.[2]
Species within the genus Liotella include:
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