Littorina saxatilis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Littorinidae
- Genus
- Littorina
- Species
- Littorina saxatilis
- Scientific Name
- Littorina saxatilis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Littorina saxatilis
Littorina saxatilis, common name the rough periwinkle, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles. First identified in the 1700s, it has been misidentified as a new species 112 times.
...Littorina saxatilis in languages:
- Bokmål
- steinsnegl
- Czech
- plážovka skalní
- Dutch
- Ruwe alikruik
- English
- Rough Periwinkle
- English
- Chestnut Periwinkle
- English
- Lagoon Snail
- French
- Littorine rugueuse
- French
- Littorine des rochers
- German
- Raue Strandschnecke
- Russian
- Грубая литорина
- Swedish
- vivipar strandsnäcka
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Littorina aleutica
- Littorina arcana
- Littorina brevicula
- Littorina compressa
- Littorina horikawai
- Littorina kasatka
- Littorina keenae
- Littorina littorea
- Littorina mandshurica
- Littorina natica
- Littorina obtusata
- Littorina plena
- Littorina saxatilis
- Littorina scutulata
- Littorina sitkana
- Littorina squalida
- Littorina subrotundata