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Echinolittorina millegrana (Philippi, 1848)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Littorinimorpha »  family Littorinidae - Periwinkles »  genus Echinolittorina

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Echinolittorina millegrana

Author: Bosch et al.

Echinolittorina millegrana

Author: Reid, D.G.

Echinolittorina millegrana

Author: Chen Lee Wu

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Description

10mm. Thick, dull, globose-ovate or ovate-conical, slightly tabulated below the deep sutures; pointed protoconch of about 2 smooth whorls. Early spire whorls spirally ridged, ridges on later whorls becoming coarsely nodular, ridges alternately strong and weak. Whitish or yellowish orange; columella and aperture orange brown. Habitat: intertidal rocks
Bosch, D.T., Dance, S.P., Moolenbeek, R.G. en Oliver, G., 1995. Seashells of Eastern Arabia.
Author: Jan Delsing

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