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Laevilitorina is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.
Distribution
Circum-Antarctic and sub-Antarctic seas.
Habitat
These small snails live in the tidal zone of rocky shores.
Description
The shells are small, ovate-conical, thin, covered by a brownish periostracum. The peristome is sharp-edged, continued across the parietal wall by a slight callus. The radula has a squarish central tooth, bearing three prominent cusps flanked by several denticles, laterals with one large cusp and five small cusps, two in front and three behind the main cusp, and the marginal is fan-shaped and multidentate.
Species in the genus Laevilitorina
- Laevilitorina antarctica
- Laevilitorina antipodum (Filhol, 1880)
- Laevilitorina bennetti
- Laevilitorina bifasciata (Suter, 1913
- Laevilitorina caliginosa (Gould, 1849)
- Laevilitorina coriacea
- Laevilitorina hamiltoni
- Laevilitorina heardensis
- Laevilitorina johnstoni
- Laevilitorina labioflecta
- Laevilitorina mariae
- Laevilitorina pumilia
- Laevilitorina pygmaea
- Laevilitorina umbilicata
- Laevilitorina wandelensis
References
- GBIF
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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