Echinolittorina placida

Echinolittorina placida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Littorinoidea
Family:	Littorinidae
Genus:	Echinolittorina
Subgenus:	Amerolittorina
Species:	E. placida
Binomial name
*Echinolittorina placida* Reid, 2009^[1]

Echinolittorina placida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles. This species was not described until 2009 because it had previously been confused with, and not differentiated from, a similar-looking species, Echinolittorina interrupta.

Distribution

This species occurs in:

The Gulf of Mexico^[1]

References

1 2 Reid D. G. (2009) "The genus Echinolittorina Habe, 1956 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the western Atlantic Ocean." Zootaxa 2184: 1-103. abstract

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