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Liotipoma wallisensis

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Liotipoma wallisensis
Shells of Liotipoma wallisensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Colloniidae
Genus: Liotipoma
Species:
L. wallisensis
Binomial name
Liotipoma wallisensis
McLean & Kiel, 2007[1]

Liotipoma wallisensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.[2]

Description[edit]

The size of the shell varies between 3.5 mm and 4.5 mm.

Distribution[edit]

This marine species occurs off Wallis Island, Polynesia

References[edit]

  • McLean J.H. & Kiel S. 2007. Cretaceous and living Colloniidae of the redefined subfamily Petropomatinae, with two new genera and one new species, with notes on opercular evolution in turbinoideans, and the fossil record of Liotiidae (Vetigastropoda: Turbinoidea). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81(3): 254-266

External links[edit]

  • "Liotipoma wallisensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.