Biology:Littorina compressa

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Littorina compressa
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Littorinidae
Genus: Littorina
Species:
L. compressa
Binomial name
Littorina compressa
Jeffreys, 1865
Synonyms[1]

Litorina macerwinii Philipi, 1847
Litorina merwinii Philipi, 1846
Littorina nigrolineata Philippi, 1846
Littorina rudis var. compressa Jeffreys, 1865
Littorina rudis var. lutea Dautzenberg & Durouchoux, 1900
Littorina saxatilis nigrolineata var. matoni Dautzenberg & P. Fisher, 1912
Littorina saxatilis rudis var. jugosoides James, 1968
Littorina saxatilis var. cinerea Fischer-Piette & Gaillard, 1971
Littorina saxatilis var. miniata Dautzenberg & P. Fisher, 1912
Turbo sulcatus Leach, 1852

Littorina compressa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.[1]

Littorina compressa are native to Western Europe,[2][3] and have also been found in the North Atlantic sea[4] and in Russia.[3]

Littorina compressa share are extremely similar in appearance to their sibling species[5] Littorina saxatilis and Littorina arcana.[6] The three species have been found to grow together.[5][7][6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Littorina compressa Jeffreys, 1865. Gofas, S. (2009). Littorina compressa Jeffreys, 1865. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140260 on 6 June 2010 .
  2. "Littorina compressa" (in en-US). https://marinvert.senckenberg.science/littorina-compressa/. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Country List - Littorina compressa". https://www.sealifebase.se/Country/CountryList.php?id=167288&genusname=Littorina&speciesname=compressa&lang=hindi. 
  4. Doellman, Meredith M.; Trussell, Geoffrey C.; Grahame, John W.; Vollmer, Steve V. (2011-11-07). "Phylogeographic analysis reveals a deep lineage split within North Atlantic Littorina saxatilis". Proceedings. Biological Sciences 278 (1722): 3175–3183. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0346. ISSN 1471-2954. PMID 21429920. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Panova, Marina; Johansson, Tomas; Canbäck, Björn; Bentzer, Johan; Rosenblad, Magnus Alm; Johannesson, Kerstin; Tunlid, Anders; André, Carl (2014-08-18). "Species and gene divergence in Littorina snails detected by array comparative genomic hybridization". BMC Genomics 15 (1): 687. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-687. ISSN 1471-2164. PMID 25135785. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Ballerstedt, S. (2007) 'Rough periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis)'. Plymouth: Marine Information Network.
  7. Reeve, James; Butlin, Roger K.; Koch, Eva L.; Stankowski, Sean; Faria, Rui (December 2024). "Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms are widespread across the species ranges of rough periwinkles (Littorina saxatilis and L. arcana)". Molecular Ecology 33 (24). doi:10.1111/mec.17160. ISSN 1365-294X. PMID 37843465. Bibcode2024MolEc..33E7160R. 

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