Echinolittorina pascua

Echinolittorina pascua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Littorinoidea
Family:	Littorinidae
Genus:	Echinolittorina
Species:	E. pascua
Binomial name
	Echinolittorina pascua; (Rosewater, 1970)
Synonyms
	Echinolittorina trochoides (Gray, 1839); Echinolittorina (Granulilittorina) pascua Rosewater, 1970; Littorina trochoides Gray, 1839; Nodilittorina pyramidalis pascua Rosewater, 1970; Nodilittorina trochoides (Gray, 1839);

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

Description[edit]

The shell grows to a length of 15 mm

This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along Easter Island

^ ^a ^b Echinolittorina pascua (Rosewater, 1970). Reid, David G. (2009). Echinolittorina pascua (Rosewater, 1970). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=437377 on 17 February 2011 .

Reid, D.G. (1989a) The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 324: 1–110.
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.

"Echinolittorina (Granulilittorina) pascua". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 17 February 2011.

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