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Littorina neritoides (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 151586

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Littorinoidea (Superfamily) > Littorinidae (Family) > Littorininae (Subfamily) > Littorina (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status		 Added by Database Management Team
Accepted name  Melarhaphe neritoides (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Littorina Férussac, 1822
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

source of synonymy: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch kleine alikruik  [details]
English small periwinkle  [details]
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Black Sea [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
German Bight [details]
West Coast of Norway  [details]
Zembra [details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (167 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: L. neritoides is reported for the Belgian coast by many authors (e.g. De Malzine, 1867; Colbeau, 1868; Pelseneer, 1881b, Vonck, 1933; Verstraelen, 1966). However, no definite reports of living specimens exist upon.
Stock (1975) reported L. neritoides in the Netherlands. [details]

Distribution: Absent from southern North Sea, on British Channel coast it does not penetrate eastwards beyond Isle of Wight.
Local distributionn may be patchy [details]

Distribution: L. neritoides is reported from the Belgian coast by many authors (e.g. De Malzine, 1867; Colbeau, 1868; Pelseneer, 1881b;Vonck, 1933; Verstraelen, 1966). However, no definite reports of living specimens exist upon. [details]
Image 
Eben (1884, plaat 3)
Eben (1884, plaat 3)
added on 2012-07-24 - author: Anoniem in Eben (1884)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151586
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-04-06 17:26:17Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Littorina neritoides (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151586 on 2013-05-21
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