WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Littorina saxatilis (Olivi, 1792)

Littorina saxatilis (Olivi, 1792)
AphiaID: 140264

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

Sources

original description: Olivi, G., 1792. Zoologia Adriatica ossia Catalogo ragionata degli Animali del Golfo e delle Laguna di Venezia; preceduto da una Dissertazione sulla Storia fiscia e naturale del Golfo; e accompagnato da Memorie, ed Osservazioni di Fiscia Storia naturale ed Economia: i-xxxiii, 1-334, Plates 1-9. Bassano. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Reid D.G. (1996). Systematics and evolution of Littorina. The Ray Society 463p. [details]

additional source: Reid, D. G. 1989. The Comparative Morphology, Phylogeny and Evolution of the Gastropod Family, Littorinidae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 324: 1-110. [details]

additional source: Janson K. 1985. A morphologic and genetic analysis of Littorina saxatilis (Prosobranchia) from Venice, and on the problem of saxatilis-rudis nomenclature. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 24(1): 51-59. [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

from synonym: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Harms, J. , 1993. Check list of species (algae, invertebrates and vertebrates) found in the vicinity of the island of Helgoland (North Sea, German Bight) - a review of recent records. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuch. 47 1: 1-34. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1893). Description d'une nouvelle espèce du genre Littorina provenant des côtes de la Tunisie. J. conchyliol. XLI: 35-36, plate I (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Danish	ungefødende strandsnegl (from synonym)	[details]
Dutch	brakwateralikruik (from synonym)	[details]
Dutch	donkere alikruik	[details]
Dutch	echte ruwe alikruik (from synonym)	[details]
Dutch	ruwe alikruik	[details]
Dutch	vale alikruik	[details]
Dutch	vergeten alikruik (from synonym)	[details]
English	black-lined periwinkle	[details]
English	rough periwinkle	[details]
French	littorine des rochers	[details]
French	littorine rugueuse	[details]
German	dunkle Strandschnecke	[details]
German	kleine Strandschnecke (from synonym)	[details]
German	rauher Strandschnecke	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	steinsnegl	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	steinsnigel	[details]
Swedish	vivipar strandsnäcka	[details]

Direct child
taxa
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Environment

marine

Distribution

Arctic Ocean [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Baltic sea [details]
Belgian Coast (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Brandy Cove [details]
British Isles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Dorset [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
German Bight [details]
Goote Bank [details]
Greens Point [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Helgoland (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Langebaan Lagoon [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Navy Island [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saldanha Bay [details]
Sam Orr Pond [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wadden Sea [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeeland [details]

Feedingtypes

deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details]

Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (65 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (75 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS

Notes

Dimensions: maximum size of 6 to 15 mm [details]

Distribution: Arctic seas to Cape May, New Jersey; Arctic seas to Puget sound [details]

Habitat: supralittoral, intertidal, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]

Taxonomy: The Littorina saxatilis complex has a great variability; the nomenclature and the systematics are very controversial.
L. rudis is a junior synonym of Littorina saxatilis according to Raffaelli (1982).
L. tenebrosa is a brackish form of Littorina saxatilis according to Janson & Ward (1985) [details]

Images

Dautzenberg & Fischer (1912, pl. 09)
added on 2008-08-18 - author: Anoniem in Dautzenberg & Fischer (1912)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Littorina saxitalis - rough periwinkles
added on 2011-03-04 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Littorina saxitalis - rough periwinkle (live)
added on 2011-03-04 - author: Nozères, Claude
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[image from synonym]
Eben (1884, plaat 3)
added on 2012-07-24 - author: Anoniem in Eben (1884)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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