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Littorina arcana Hannaford-Ellis, 1978 
AphiaID: 140259

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Littorinoidea (Superfamily) > Littorinidae (Family) > Littorininae (Subfamily) > Littorina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Littorina Férussac, 1822
Synonymised
taxa		  Littorina saxatilis patula Thorpe, 1844
 Littorina saxatilis patula var. attenuata Dautzenberg & P. Fisher, 1912
Sources  basis of record: Reid D.G. (1996). Systematics and evolution of Littorina. The Ray Society 463p.  [details]

additional source: Reid, D.G. (1989a) The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 324: 1-110. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch (eier-) levendbarende alikruik  [details]
Dutch levendbarende alikruik  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (35 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Authority: Ellis, 1978 in ITIS [details]

Distribution: Probably widely distributed [details]
Image 
Littorina arcana
Littorina arcana
added on 2013-01-21 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140259
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2010-01-05 17:27:41Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2010-01-07 10:29:10Z  changed  Reid, David G.
  
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  Citation: Reid, David G.; Gofas, S. (2013). Littorina arcana Hannaford-Ellis, 1978. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140259 on 2013-05-19
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