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Littoraria scabra (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 208939

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
  Buccinum foliorum Gmelin, 1791
Buccinum lineatum Gmelin, 1791
Helix scabra Linnaeus, 1758
Litorina scabra var. punctata Philippi, 1847
Litorina scabra var. rubra Philippi, 1847
Littorina novaehiberniae Lesson, 1831
Littorina pallescens var. erronea Nevill, 1885
Littorina scabra (Linnaeus, 1758)
Littorina scabra var. tenuis Nevill, 1885
Melarhaphe scabra (Linnaeus, 1758)
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]

original description (from synonym): 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] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra [details]
Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
East Coast of South Africa [details]
Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Remark: Subgenus Littorinopsis [details]
Image 
Littoraria scabra
Littoraria scabra
added on 2013-01-21 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208939
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-06-03 15:01:39Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-01-05 15:18:33Z  changed  Reid, David G.
2012-07-11 02:08:44Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Reid, David G. (2013). Littoraria scabra (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208939 on 2013-06-19
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