Echinolittorina

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Echinolittorina
Echinolittorina ziczac 2.jpg
A live and active individual of Echinolittorina ziczac
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Littorinidae
Subfamily:
Genus: Echinolittorina
, 1956[1]
Synonyms
  • Amerolittorina Reid, 2009
  • Echinolittorina (Amerolittorina) Reid, 2009
  • Echinolittorina (Echinolittorina) Habe, 1956
  • Echinolittorina (Fossarilittorina) Rosewater, 1981
  • Echinolittorina (Granulilittorina) Habe & Kosuge, 1966
  • Echinolittorina (Lineolittorina) Reid, 2009
  • Fossarilittorina Rosewater, 1981
  • Granulilittorina Habe & Kosuge, 1966
  • Lineolittorina Reid, 2009
  • Littorina (Fossarilittorina) Rosewater, 1981
  • Nodilittorina (Echinolittorina) Habe, 1956
  • Nodilittorina (Fossarilittorina) Rosewater, 1981

Echinolittorina is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Littorinidae, the winkles.

Species[]

Two shells of Echinolittorina paytensis

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Echinolittorina :[2]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Echinolittorina fernandezensis (Rosewater, 1870): synonym of Austrolittorina fernandezensis (Rosewater, 1970)
  • Echinolittorina galapagiensis (Stearns, 1892): synonym of Echinolittorina lemniscata (Philippi, 1846)
  • Echinolittorina pyramidalis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833): synonym of Nodilittorina pyramidalis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
  • Echinolittorina trochoides (Gray, 1839): synonym of Echinolittorina pascua (Rosewater, 1970)
  • Echinolittorina unifasciata (Gray, 1826): synonym of Austrolittorina unifasciata (Gray, 1826)

References[]

  1. ^ (1956). Venus, Kyoto 19: 96, 97.
  2. ^ WoRMS : Echinolittorina
  • Habe & Kosuge, 1966) Reid D.G. (2007) The genus Echinolittorina Habe, 1956 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 1420: 1-161.

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