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:

References

  1. 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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