Echinolittorina

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

Echinolittorina
A live and active individual of Echinolittorina ziczac
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Littorinidae
Subfamily: Littorininae
Genus: Echinolittorina
Habe, 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

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. Habe T. (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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