| Littorina fabalis | |
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| (unranked): | clade Hypsogastropoda |
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| Species: | L. fabalis |
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| Littorina fabalis (Turton, 1825) | |
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Litorina arctica var. retusaMøller, 1842 Contents | |
Littorina fabalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles. [1]
The maximum recorded shell length is 1.8 cm. [2] L. fabalis can be dark or light green, yellow, orange, brown or black. The lighter colours are more frequently found on sheltered shores, and the brown morph on exposed shores. [3]
L. fabalis is distributed on British, Irish, and North Sea coasts, and southwards into the western Mediterranean.
This species can be found on seaweeds like Fucus vesiculosus and Ascophyllum nodosum. [3] The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; maximum recorded depth is 0 m. [2]
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