Liotia fenestrata

Liotia fenestrata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1][2]

Liotia fenestrata
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Liotia fenestrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Liotia
Species:
L. fenestrata
Binomial name
Liotia fenestrata
Carpenter, 1864
Synonyms

Liotia cookeana Dall, 1918

Description

The small, brownish white shell is clathrate by equidistant spiral and radiating riblets, with deep interstices. Its shape is at first subdiscoidal, but later variable. The apex is depressed. The nuclear whorls are flat and smooth. The teleoconch contains 2½ convex whorls. It is clathrate by about 15 equidistant radiating and 7 spiral ribs, with deep pitted interspaces. The sculpture terminates with a spiral ridge surrounding the rather wide, deep umbilicus. The circular aperture is frequently slightly sloping and is slightly attached to the parietal wall. The inner lip is sinuated in the umbilical region.[3][4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California.

References
  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Liotia fenestrata Carpenter, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528076 on 2012-12-03
  2. Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
  3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  4. Carpenter, Suppl. Rep. Brit. Assoc, 1864, pp. 612, 652
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