Littoraria

Taxobox
name = Littoraria


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Caenogastropoda
familia = Littorinidae
genus = "Littoraria"
genus_authority = Griffith and Pidgeon, 1834

"Littoraria" is a genus of more than fifty species of gastropods in the family Littorinidae.

They can be found in large numbers on trunks, trees and prop roots in tropical mangrove forests a few metres above high tide level in the Indo-West Pacific region and the Tropical Eastern Pacific They feed on the thin film of algae, epiphytes, fungi, diatoms and leaf epidermis on these trunks. cite journal | author=J.T. Christensen| title=Diet in Littoraria| journal=Hydrobiologia| year=1998| volume=378| pages=235–236| doi=10.1023/A:1003226713667] . The species living on higher levels of the trees have thinner shells and are more variable in shell colours. "Littoraria aberrans" is the only ovoviviparous species with intracapsular metamorphosis within this genus.

Species in the genus "Littoraria"

* "Littoraria aberrans" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria ahenea" Reid, 1986
* "Littoraria albicans" Metcalfe, 1852
* "Littoraria angulifera" Lamarck, 1822 : mangrove periwinkle
** "Littoraria angulifera hessei" Boettger 1912
* "Littoraria ardouiniana" Heude, 1885
* "Littoraria articulata" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria bengalensis"
* "Littoraria carinifera" Menke, 1830
* "Littoraria cingulata" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria cingulifera" Dunker, 1845
* "Littoraria coccinea"
* "Littoraria conica" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria delicatula" Nevill, 1885
* "Littoraria fasciata" Sowerby, 1832
* "Littoraria flammea" Philippi, 1847
* "Littoraria flava" King & Broderip, 1832
* "Littoraria flavaosa" King & Broderip, 1832
* "Littoraria glabrata" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria ianthostoma" Stuckey & D.G. Reid, 2002
* "Littoraria intermedia" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria irrorata" Say, 1822 : marsh periwinkle
* "Littoraria kraussi" Rosewater, 1970
* "Littoraria lutea" Philippi, 1847
* "Littoraria luteola" Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
* "Littoraria mauritiana" Lamarck, 1822
* "Littoraria melanostoma" Gray, 1839
* "Littoraria miodelicatula" Oyama, 1950
* "Littoraria nebulosa" Lamarck, 1822 : cloudy periwinkle
* "Littoraria obesa" Gmelin, 1791
* "Littoraria pallescens" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria philippiana" Reeve, 1857
* "Littoraria pintado" Wood, 1820
** "Littoraria pintado pullata" Carpenter, 1864
* "Littoraria planaxis" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria punctata" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria rosewateri" Reid, 1999
* "Littoraria scabra" Philippi, 1847
* "Littoraria sinensis" Philippi, 1847
* "Littoraria strigata" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria subvittata" Reid, 1986
* "Littoraria sulculosa" Philippi, 1846
* "Littoraria tessellata" Philippi, 1847
* "Littoraria undulata" Gray, 1839
* "Littoraria varia" Sowerby, 1832
* "Littoraria variegata" Souleyet, in Eydoux & Souleyet, 1852
* "Littoraria vespacea" Reid, 1986
* "Littoraria zebra" Donovan, 1825 : zebra periwinkle

Footnotes

References

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* REID, D G 1986. The Littorinid Molluscs of Mangrove Forests in the Indo-Pacific Region: the genus Littoraria. British Museum (Natural History), London. 228 pp.
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