Echinolittorina pascua

Echinolittorina pascua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Littorinidae
Genus:	Echinolittorina
Species:	E. pascua
Binomial name
Echinolittorina pascua (Rosewater, 1970)
Synonyms [1]
Echinolittorina trochoides(Gray, 1839) Echinolittorina (Granulilittorina) pascuaRosewater, 1970 Littorina trochoidesGray, 1839 Nodilittorina pyramidalis pascuaRosewater, 1970 Nodilittorina trochoides(Gray, 1839)

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

Description

The shell grows to a length of 15 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along Easter Island

References

1. 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.

External links

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