Austrolittorina antipodum

Banded periwinkle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Caenogastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Littorinoidea
Family:	Littorinidae
Subfamily:	Littorininae
Genus:	Austrolittorina
Species:	A. antipodum
Binomial name
Austrolittorina antipodum Philippi, 1847
Synonyms
Echinolittorina antipodum (Philippi, 1847) Littorina antipodum Philippi, 1847 Littorina mauritiana Suter, 1913 Melarhaphe oliveri Finlay, 1930[1] Littorina unifasciata antipodum Rosewater, 1970

Austrolittorina antipodum (Philippi, 1847), known as the Banded periwinkle^[2]is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles, found in New Zealand.^[3]

Distribution

This subspecies occurs in New Zealand^[4]

Austrolittorina antipodum apertural view

References

Sources

• Reid, D.G. & Williams, S.T. (2004) The subfamily Littorininae (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the temperate Southern Hemisphere: the genera Nodilittorina, Austrolittorina and Afrolittorina. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 75­122
• WoRMS (2010). Austrolittorina antipodum (Philippi, 1847). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446839 on 2010-06-05

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