''Echinolittorina feejeensis'' is a
species
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of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the
family
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Littorinidae
The Littorinidae are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of over 200 species of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha, commonly known as periwinkles and found worldwide.
Names
In ...
, the winkles or periwinkles.
Description
Distribution
References
* Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2004). ''Speciation and diversity on tropical rocky shores: a global phylogeny of snails of the genus Echinolittorina''. Evolution 58(10): 2227–2251
* Reid D.G. (2007). ''The genus Echinolittorina Habe, 1956 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean.'' Zootaxa 1420
Littorinidae
Gastropods described in 1857
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