Austroliotia
Genus of gastropods
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Austroliotia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.[2]
| Austroliotia | |
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| Austroliotia botanica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Liotiidae |
| Genus: | Austroliotia Cotton, 1948 |
| Type species | |
| Liotia (Austroliotia) botanica, Hedley 1915 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Liotina (Austroliotia), Ladd, 1966 | |
Distribution
They can be found under stones in the intertidal zone of the temperate coastal waters of Australia and Tasmania.
Species
According to the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, the genus Austroliotia consists of the following species with names in current use[3]
- Austroliotia australis (Kiener, 1839)
- Austroliotia botanica (Hedley, 1915)
- Austroliotia darwinensis (Laseron, 1958)
- Austroliotia densilineata (Tate, 1899)
- Austroliotia pulcherrima (Reeve, 1843)
- Austroliotia scalaris (Hedley, 1903)
- Austroliotia warnii †(Defrance, 1818)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Austroliotia saxa (Laseron, 1954): synonym of Austroliotia scalaris (Hedley, 1903)
