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Litiopa Rang, 1829 
AphiaID: 138134

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order) > Cerithioidea (Superfamily) > Litiopidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Litiopidae Gray, 1847
Synonymised
taxa
  Abaconia Clench, 1938
Bombyxinus Bélanger in Lesson, 1834
Sources  basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009 Recent Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.), The New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch [details]

from synonym: Bouchet P. (2002) Gone with the wind: a pelagic marine snail described as an endemic land snail from the Bahamas. The Nautilus 116(1):32-35. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Litiopa melanostoma Rang, 1829
Species Litiopa nipponica Kuroda & Kawamoto, 1956
Species Litiopa tumescens (Thiele, 1925)

Species Litiopa limnophysa Melvill & Standen, 1896 (species inquirenda)

Species Litiopa bucciniformis Hornung & Mermod, 1926 accepted as Bittium proteum (Jousseaume, 1931)
Species Litiopa effusa C. B. Adams, 1850 accepted as Monoplex pilearis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Litiopa obesa C. B. Adams, 1850 accepted as Gutturnium muricinum (Röding, 1798)
Species Litiopa saxicola C. B. Adams, 1852 accepted as Elachisina saxicola (C. B. Adams, 1852)
Environment marine
Distribution Ponta do Mussulo [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138134
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2006-09-22 06:50:38Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2011-09-18 08:12:44Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Litiopa Rang, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138134 on 2013-05-23
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