Lophiotoma kina

Lophiotoma kina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae. It was described in 2017 as part of an integrative-taxonomy revision of the genus Lophiotoma.

Taxonomy

Lophiotoma kina was established by Puillandre, Kantor, Sysoev, Couloux & Bouchet during a multilocus phylogenetic study that redefined species limits within Lophiotoma. The species is listed under Turridae in subsequent taxonomic treatments.

Shell morphology follows the elongate-fusiform Lophiotoma habit with an elevated spire and siphonal canal, as diagnosed for the genus in the original revision. A detailed species-level description is provided in the type paper.

Lophiotoma kina has been reported from the tropical western Pacific, including waters off Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.