WoRMS taxon details
Littoraria pallescens (Philippi, 1846)
AphiaID: 208937
AphiaID: 208937
| 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 arboricola Reeve, 1857 Littorina pallescens Philippi, 1846 Littorina sieboldii Philippi, 1846 | |||||||||||||
| 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. (2001). New data on the taxonomy and distribution of the genus Littoraria Griffith and Pidgeon, 1834 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in Indo-West Pacific mangrove forests. Nautilus 115:115-139. [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 | Aldabra [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Remark: Subgenus Littorinopsis Up to 3 cm, shell surface with moderate spiral ridges. Colour cream or light brown with 6-10 darker zigzag stripes and often with a pale peripheral cord. Habitat: supralittoral fringe on mangrove leaves and occasionally trunks. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997 <282>). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208937 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Reid, David G. (2013). Littoraria pallescens (Philippi, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208937 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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