Belgian Register of Marine Species - Littorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758)

BeRMS taxon details

Littorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 140262

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Mollusca > Gastropoda > Caenogastropoda > Littorinimorpha > Littorinoidea > Littorinidae > Littorininae > Littorina

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Littorina Férussac, 1822

Sources

original description: 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]

basis of record: Reid D.G. (1996). Systematics and evolution of Littorina. The Ray Society 463p. [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: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Catalan	caragolí comú	[details]
Danish	stor	[details]
Dutch	alikruik	[details]
Dutch	gewone alikruik	[details]
English	common periwinkle	[details]
English	periwinkle	[details]
Finnish	rantakotilo	[details]
French	bigorneau	[details]
French	caracole	[details]
French	littorine commun	[details]
French	littorine commune d'Europe	[details]
French	vignot	[details]
German	gemeine Strandschnecke	[details]
German	gemeine Uferschnecke	[details]
Italian	littorina comune	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	storstrandsnegl	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	storstrandsnigel	[details]
Portuguese	caramujo	[details]
Scottish Gaelic	faocha	[details]
Spanish	bígaro	[details]
Spanish	caracolillo	[details]
Swedish	vanlig strandsnäcka	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

Baltic sea [details]
Bar Road [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Brier Island [details]
British Isles [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Deadmans Harbour [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
German Bight [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Minister's Island [details]
North Coast of Spain [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostduinkerke [details]
Oostende [details]
Sam Orr Pond [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Coast of Norway [details]
White Sea [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeebrugge [details]

Feedingtypes

deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details]

Links

BIOTIC
Marine Life Information Network - UK
PlanktonNet Image
To Barcode of Life (395 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (649 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1246 nucleotides; 1144 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS

Images

Picture of Littorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2004-06-17 - author: Van Bogaert, B.
qualitystatus: checked by Reid, David G. on 2013-05-03 19:43:08

Littorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2006-09-13 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
qualitystatus: checked by Reid, David G. on 2013-05-03 19:43:24

Littorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2006-09-14 - author: VLIZ (Decleer)
qualitystatus: checked by Reid, David G. on 2013-05-03 19:43:35

alikruikje met zeepokken levend op amerikaanse zwaardschede
added on 2006-11-15 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
qualitystatus: not checked

Littorina littorea - periwinkle (live)
added on 2011-03-03 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked