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Littoraria mauritiana (Lamarck, 1822) 
AphiaID: 208935

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Littorinoidea (Superfamily) > Littorinidae (Family) > Littorininae (Subfamily) > Littoraria (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Littoraria Gray, 1833
Synonymised
taxa		  Littorina mauritiana (Lamarck, 1822)
Sources  basis of record: Reid, D.G. (1986). The littorinid molluscs of mangrove forests in the Indo-Pacific region. British Museum (Natural History), London. [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]

additional source: Reid, D.G., Dyal, P. & Williams, S.T. (2009) Global diversification of mangrove fauna: a molecular phylogeny of Littoraria (Gastropoda: Littorinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution [details]

Distribution Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Notes  Description: Description: as l. undulata, but pale grey with faint central, darker band on whorls (Richmond, 1997). [details]

Remark: Subgenus Littoraria [details]
Image 
Littoraria mauritiana
Littoraria mauritiana
added on 2013-01-21 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208935
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-06-03 15:01:39Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-01-05 15:18:33Z  changed  Reid, David G.
  
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  Citation: Reid, David G. (2013). Littoraria mauritiana (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208935 on 2013-05-19
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