Echinolittorina pascua
| Echinolittorina pascua | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Littorinoidea |
| Family: | Littorinidae |
| Genus: | Echinolittorina |
| Species: | E. pascua |
| Binomial name | |
| Echinolittorina pascua (Rosewater, 1970) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Echinolittorina pascua is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.[1]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 15 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along Easter Island
References
- 1 2 Echinolittorina pascua (Rosewater, 1970). Reid, David G. (2009). Echinolittorina pascua (Rosewater, 1970). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=437377 on 17 February 2011.
- Reid, D.G. (1989a) The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 324: 1-110.
- Williams, S.T. & Reid, D.G. (2004) Speciation and diversity on tropical rocky shores: a global phylogeny of snails of the genus Echinolittorina. Evolution 58(10):2227-2251
- Reid D.G. (2007). The genus Echinolittorina Habe, 1956 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 1420.
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