Liotina semiclathratula is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Liotiidae.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 5 mm and 15 mm. The whitish shell has a depressed turbinate shape. It is spirally costate, with the costae slightly tuberculate above. The suture is channeled. The outer lip is crenately varicose. The large umbilicus is bicarinate within and crenulately margined.

Liotina semiclathratula

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan, the Amur region and the Philippines.

Liotina semiclathratula

References

Notes

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999). Catalogue and bibliography of the marine shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Osaka. : Elle Scientific Publications. 749 pp.

Liotina semiclathratula

External links

To World Register of Marine Species

semiclathratula

Gastropods described in 1862