Liotella cancellata

Liotella cancellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1][2]

Liotella cancellata
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Liotella cancellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Liotella
Species:
L. cancellata
Binomial name
Liotella cancellata
(Krauss, 1848)
Synonyms

Stomatella ? cancellata Krauss, 1848

Description

(Original description by Ferdinand Krauss) The umbilicate shell has an orbicular shape. It is convex, solid, gray-whitish with dirty red stripes. The transverse ribs are blunt. The irregular, longitudinal striae are slender. The curve of the penultimate whorl is canceled. The shell has a prominent spire, acute at the apex;. The four whorls increase in size The body whorl has 26-28 ribs, of which 8-10 are larger, the penultimate whorl only 8, including 3 - 4 larger. These form a lattice with numerous, oblique, longitudinal threads. These are more prominent above but closer to the aperture they become weaker. The oblique aperture is small and almost rounded. The margin of the columella is slightly subreflexed; The umbilicus is smooth.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

References
  1. WoRMS (2012). Liotella cancellata (Krauss, 1848). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=572136 on 2012-09-01
  2. Kilburn, R.N. (1977) Taxonomic studies on the marine Mollusca of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 23, 173–214.
  3. Krauss (1848), Die südafrikanischen Mollusken, ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur geographischen Verbreitung derselben, mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten; Stuttgart,Ebner & Seubert,1848 (described as Stomatella ? cancellata )
  • Krauss, Die Südafr. Moll., p. 93, t. 5, f. 26, 1848.
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