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Litorina africana Krauss in Philippi, 1847 
AphiaID: 446974

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Littorinoidea (Superfamily) > Littorinidae (Family) > Littorininae (Subfamily) > Litorina (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status		 Edited by Database Management Team
Accepted name  Afrolittorina africana (Krauss in Philippi, 1847)
Rank Species
Parent Litorina Menke, 1828 accepted as Littorina Férussac, 1822
Source  source of synonymy: 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]

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Subspecies Litorina africana tryphena Bartsch, 1915 accepted as Afrolittorina knysnaensis (Krauss in Philippi, 1847)
Environment marine
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:446974
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-01-12 09:32:14Z  created  Reid, David G.
2010-01-18 12:10:06Z  changed  Reid, David G.
2010-01-27 14:30:53Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2010-12-01 13:53:47Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Litorina africana Krauss in Philippi, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446974 on 2013-05-18
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