Biology:Echinolittorina

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Echinolittorina Temporal range: Quaternary–Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
A live and active individual of Echinolittorina ziczac
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Littorinidae
Subfamily:	Littorininae
Genus:	Echinolittorina Habe, 1956
Synonyms
Amerolittorina Reid, 2009 Echinolittorina (Amerolittorina) Reid, 2009 Echinolittorina (Echinolittorina) Habe, 1956 Echinolittorina (Fossarilittorina) Rosewater, 1981 Echinolittorina (Granulilittorina) Habe & Kosuge, 1966 Echinolittorina (Lineolittorina) Reid, 2009 Fossarilittorina Rosewater, 1981 Granulilittorina Habe & Kosuge, 1966 Lineolittorina Reid, 2009 Littorina (Fossarilittorina) Rosewater, 1981 Nodilittorina (Echinolittorina) Habe, 1956 Nodilittorina (Fossarilittorina) Rosewater, 1981

Echinolittorina is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Littorinidae, the winkles.

Species

Two shells of Echinolittorina paytensis

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following extant species with valid names are included within the genus Echinolittorina:

• Echinolittorina albicarinata (McLean, 1970)
• Echinolittorina angustior (Mörch, 1876)
• Echinolittorina apicina (Menke, 1851)
• Echinolittorina arabica (El Assal, 1990)
• Echinolittorina aspera (Philippi, 1846)
• Echinolittorina atrata (C.B. Adams, 1852)
• Echinolittorina australis (Gray, 1826)
• Echinolittorina austrotrochoides Reid, 2007
• Echinolittorina biangulata (Martens, 1897)
• Echinolittorina caboverdensis Reid, 2011
• Echinolittorina cecillei (Philippi, 1851)
• Echinolittorina cinerea (Pease, 1869)
• Echinolittorina conspersa (Philippi, 1847)
• Echinolittorina dilatata (d'Orbigny, 1842)
• Echinolittorina dubiosa (C.B. Adams, 1852)
• Echinolittorina feejeensis (Reeve, 1857)
• Echinolittorina fuscolineata (Reid, 2002)
• Echinolittorina granosa (Philippi, 1845)
• Echinolittorina hawaiiensis (Rosewater & Kadolsky, 1981)
• Echinolittorina helenae (E.A. Smith, 1890)
• Echinolittorina interrupta (C.B. Adams in Philippi, 1847)
• Echinolittorina jamaicensis (C.B. Adams, 1850)
• Echinolittorina lemniscata (Philippi, 1846)
• Echinolittorina leucosticta (Philippi, 1847)
• Echinolittorina lineolata (d’Orbigny, 1840)
• Echinolittorina malaccana (Philippi, 1847)
• Echinolittorina marisrubri Reid, 2007
• Echinolittorina marquesensis Reid, 2007
• Echinolittorina melanacme (E.A. Smith, 1876)
• Echinolittorina meleagris (Beck in Potiez & Michaud, 1838)
• Echinolittorina mespillum (Mühlfeld, 1824)
• Echinolittorina miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
• Echinolittorina millegrana (Philippi, 1848)
• Echinolittorina modesta (Philippi, 1846)
• Echinolittorina natalensis (Philippi, 1847)
• Echinolittorina novaezelandiae (Reeve, 1857)
• Echinolittorina omanensis Reid, 2007
• Echinolittorina parcipicta (Carpenter, 1864)
• Echinolittorina pascua (Rosewater, 1970)
• Echinolittorina paytensis (Philippi, 1847)
• Echinolittorina penicillata (Carpenter, 1864)
• Echinolittorina peregrinator Reid, 2011
• Echinolittorina peruviana (Lamarck, 1822)
• Echinolittorina philippinensis Reid, 2007
• Echinolittorina placida Reid, 2009
• Echinolittorina porcata (Philippi, 1846)
• Echinolittorina pulchella (Dunker, 1845)
• Echinolittorina punctata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Echinolittorina quadricincta (Mühlfeld, 1824)
• Echinolittorina radiata (Souleyet in Eydoux & Souleyet, 1852)
• Echinolittorina reticulata (Anton, 1838)
• Echinolittorina santelenae (Reid, 2002)
• Echinolittorina soroziczac Reid, 2011
• Echinolittorina subnodosa (Philippi, 1847)
• Echinolittorina sundaica (van Regteren Altena, 1945)
• Echinolittorina tenuistriata (Reid, 2002)
• Echinolittorina tricincta Reid, 2007
• Echinolittorina tuberculata (Menke, 1828)
• Echinolittorina vermeiji (Bandel & Kadolsky, 1982)
• Echinolittorina vidua (Gould, 1859)
• Echinolittorina wallaceana Reid, 2007
• Echinolittorina ziczac (Gmelin, 1791)

Echinolittorina nielseni (Araya & Reid, 2016) is an extinct species from the Quaternary deposits. Over fifteen specimens were found in northern Chile. This species has a large shell, 15.7-22.2 mm high.

Species brought into synonymy

• Echinolittorina fernandezensis (Rosewater, 1870): synonym of Austrolittorina fernandezensis (Rosewater, 1970)
• Echinolittorina galapagiensis (Stearns, 1892): synonym of Echinolittorina lemniscata (Philippi, 1846)
• Echinolittorina pyramidalis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833): synonym of Nodilittorina pyramidalis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
• Echinolittorina trochoides (Gray, 1839): synonym of Echinolittorina pascua (Rosewater, 1970)
• Echinolittorina unifasciata (Gray, 1826): synonym of Austrolittorina unifasciata (Gray, 1826)

References

• Habe & Kosuge, 1966) Reid D.G. (2007) The genus Echinolittorina Habe, 1956 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 1420: 1-161.

Further reading

• S. T. Williams, and D. G. Reid, Speciation and Diversity on Tropical Rocky Shores: a Global Phylogeny of Snails of the Genus Echinolittorina, Evolution, Volume 58, Issue 10, pages 2227–2251, October 2004
• David G. Reid, Kalpana Lal, Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds, Fontje Kaligis, D. Timothy J. Littlewood, Suzanne T. Williams : Comparative phylogeography and species boundaries in Echinolittorina snails in the central Indo-West Pacific, Journal of Biogeography, Volume 33, Issue 6, pages 990–1006, June 2006

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