Liotia
| Liotia | |
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| Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Liotia echinacantha | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Liotiidae |
| Subfamily: | Liotiinae |
| Genus: |
Liotia Gray, 1842 |
| Type species | |
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Delphinula cancellata Gray, 1828 |
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Liotia is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.
Liotia is the type genus of the family Liotiidae.
The species in this genus are small to minute. They have a depressed or turbinate shape. They are all umbilicated with a nacreous inner layer. The thickened outer lip, attached to the body whorl for a short length, is continuous. Where the operculum has been stated, it is horny and multispiral.
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