WoRMS taxon details
Littorina subrotundata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864)
445800 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:445800)
accepted
Species
Algamorda subrotundata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Assiminea subrotundata P. P. Carpenter, 1864 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Littorina (Neritrema) subrotundata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864) · alternative representation
Littorina subrotundata kurila Boulding, 1990 · unaccepted
Paludinella newcombiana Hemphill, 1877 · unaccepted
- Subspecies Littorina subrotundata kurila Boulding, 1990 accepted as Littorina subrotundata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Assiminea subrotundata P. P. Carpenter, 1864) Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. <em>Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.</em> (1863) 33: 517-686., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29370651, https://archive.org/details/reportofbritisha64brit/page/n3/mode/2up
page(s): 628, 656 [details]
page(s): 628, 656 [details]
Type locality contained in Washington (State)
type locality contained in Washington (State) [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Littorina subrotundata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=445800 on 2026-09-11
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Littorina subrotundata kurila Boulding, 1990) Boulding, E. G. (1990). Are the opposing selection pressures on exposed and protected shores sufficient to maintain genetic differentiation between gastropod populations with high intermigration rates?. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 193: 41-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00028065 [details]
original description (of Assiminea subrotundata P. P. Carpenter, 1864) Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. <em>Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.</em> (1863) 33: 517-686., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29370651, https://archive.org/details/reportofbritisha64brit/page/n3/mode/2up
page(s): 628, 656 [details]
original description (of Paludinella newcombiana Hemphill, 1877) Hemphill, H. (1877). Description of a new California mollusk. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 7: 49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3180368 [details]
basis of record Reid, D. G. (1996). Systematics and evolution of <i>Littorina</i>. <em>The Ray Society.</em> 463p. [details]
original description (of Assiminea subrotundata P. P. Carpenter, 1864) Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. <em>Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.</em> (1863) 33: 517-686., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29370651, https://archive.org/details/reportofbritisha64brit/page/n3/mode/2up
page(s): 628, 656 [details]
original description (of Paludinella newcombiana Hemphill, 1877) Hemphill, H. (1877). Description of a new California mollusk. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 7: 49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3180368 [details]
basis of record Reid, D. G. (1996). Systematics and evolution of <i>Littorina</i>. <em>The Ray Society.</em> 463p. [details]
Other
additional source
Reid, D. G. (1989). The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.</em> 324: 1-110., available online at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1989.0040 [details] Available for editors 
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 14184)
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Littorina subrotundata)
To GenBank (62 nucleotides; 44 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Paludinella newcombiana Hemphill, 1877)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Littorina subrotundata)
To GenBank (62 nucleotides; 44 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Paludinella newcombiana Hemphill, 1877)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally
Unreviewed
