''Pseudoliotia bellatula'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

, a marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the

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Tornidae Tornidae is a family (biology), family of very small and minute sea snails with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. This family used to be known as the Vitrinellidae.Bouchet ...

. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Pseudoliotia bellatula (W.-M. Feng, 1996). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1308228 on 2024-06-30

Distribution

This species occurs in the

South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan island, Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luz ...

References

* Feng W.-M. eimin (1996). Microgastropods from Nansha sea area, China. In: Studies on marine fauna and flora and biogeography of the Nansha Islands and neighbouring waters II: 85-205. * Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2018). The genus Pseudoliotia Tate, 1898 (Gastropoda, Vitrinellidae) in the Tropical Indo-Pacific. Iberus. suppl. 7: 1-117. Tornidae Gastropods described in 1996 {{Tornidae-stub