''Laevilitorina wandelensis'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.
Distribution
Description
The maximum recorded
shell length is 3 mm.
[Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLOS One'' 5(1): e8776. .]
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 18 m.
Maximum recorded depth is 391 m.
References
* Warén A. & Hain S. (1996) ''Description of Zerotulidae fam. nov. (Littorinoidea), with comments on an Antarctic littorinid gastropod''. The Veliger 39(4):277-334.
Littorinidae
Gastropods described in 1905
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