WoRMS taxon details
Afrolittorina Williams, Reid & Littlewood, 2003 AphiaID: 446385
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Littorinoidea (Superfamily) > Littorinidae (Family) > Littorininae (Subfamily) > Afrolittorina (Genus)
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| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon |  Littorina africana (Krauss in Philippi, 1847) (type by original designation)
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| Parent | Littorininae Children, 1834 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description Williams, S.; Reid, D.; Littlewood, D. (2003). A molecular phylogeny of the Littorininae (Gastropoda: Littorinidae): unequal evolutionary rates, morphological parallelism, and biogeography of the Southern Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 28(1): 60-86., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00038-1 [details] [show all] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa (4) [show all] [sort alpha..] | Species Afrolittorina acutispira (E. A. Smith, 1892) Species Afrolittorina africana (Krauss in Philippi, 1847)Species Afrolittorina knysnaensis (Krauss in Philippi, 1847)Species Afrolittorina praetermissa (May, 1909) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:446385 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P.; Reid, David G. (2015). Afrolittorina Williams, Reid & Littlewood, 2003. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446385 on 2016-09-26 | ||||||||||||||
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