Littorina ziczac

Taxobox
name = "Littorina ziczac"

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image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Littorinoidea
familia = Littorinidae
genus = "Littorina"
species = "L. ziczac"
binomial = "Littorina ziczac"
binomial_authority = (Gmelin, 1791)
synonyms =

"Littorina ziczac", now known as "Echinolittorina ziczac", common name the "zebra periwinkle", is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Littorinidae.

This species lives in the tropical Western Atlantic Ocean, from Florida to Barbados, including the Caribbean coast of Central America. It is very common on intertidal rocks.

The maximum size of the shell of this species is 23 mm or 1 inch.

References

External links

Malacolog database entry at: [http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?nameid=1577]

Books

* WARMKE, GERMAINE L. & R. TUCKER ABBOTT, 1961, "Caribbean Seashells, A Guide to the Marine Mollusks of Puerto Rico and Other West Indian Islands, Bermuda and the Lower Florida Keys". Livingstone, Pennsylvania, ISBN 0-486-21359-5