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Afrolittorina acutispira (E. A. Smith, 1892) 
AphiaID: 446835

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Littorinoidea (Superfamily) > Littorinidae (Family) > Littorininae (Subfamily) > Afrolittorina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Afrolittorina Williams, Reid & Littlewood, 2003
Synonymised
taxa
  Littorina acutispira E. A. Smith, 1892
Littorina infans E. A. Smith, 1892
Nodilittorina acutispira (E. A. Smith, 1892)
Sources  basis of record: Reid, D.G. & Williams, S.T. (2004) The subfamily Littorininae (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the temperate Southern Hemisphere: the genera Nodilittorina, Austrolittorina and Afrolittorina. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 75­122. [details]

basis of record (from synonym): Reid, D. G. 1989. The Comparative Morphology, Phylogeny and Evolution of the Gastropod Family, Littorinidae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 324: 1-110. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:446835
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2010-01-12 09:22:29Z  created  Reid, David G.
2010-01-18 12:10:06Z  changed  Reid, David G.
2010-01-27 14:30:53Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2013-05-03 17:34:48Z  checked  Reid, David G.
  
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  Citation: Reid, David G. (2013). Afrolittorina acutispira (E. A. Smith, 1892). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446835 on 2013-06-19
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