Echinolittorina placida
| Echinolittorina placida | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Littorinidae |
| Genus: | Echinolittorina |
| Species: | E. placida
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| Binomial name | |
| Echinolittorina placida Reid, 2009[1]
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Echinolittorina placida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Littorinidae, the winkles. This species was not described until 2009 because it had previously been confused with, and not differentiated from, a similar-looking species, Echinolittorina interrupta.
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico.
Habitat
[edit]Rocks or other hard substrates of the splash zone (supralittoral) where they spend most of their time out of the water. A herbivorous species that feeds on microscopic marine algae, growing on rocks.
References
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