MolluscaBase - Echinolittorina sundaica (van Regteren Altena, 1945)

WoRMS taxon details

Echinolittorina sundaica (van Regteren Altena, 1945)

AphiaID

437382 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:437382)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Echinolittorina T. Habe, 1956

Original name

Littorina (Melaraphe) sundaica van Regteren Altena, 1945

Synonymised names

Echinolittorina (Granulilittorina) sundaica (van Regteren Altena, 1945) · alternative representation

Littorina (Melaraphe) sundaica van Regteren Altena, 1945 · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Littorina sundaica van Regteren Altena, 1945 · unaccepted

Nodilittorina sundaica (van Regteren Altena, 1945) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Littorina (Melaraphe) sundaica van Regteren Altena, 1945) Regteren Altena, C. O. van. (1945). Report upon a collection of recent shells from Java. Zoologische Mededelingen. 25: 140-154.
page(s): 144, 151 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone

type locality contained in Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Echinolittorina sundaica (van Regteren Altena, 1945). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=437382 on 2025-05-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-12-07 13:56:43Z

created

Reid, David G.

2024-01-23 18:33:16Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Littorina (Melaraphe) sundaica van Regteren Altena, 1945) Regteren Altena, C. O. van. (1945). Report upon a collection of recent shells from Java. Zoologische Mededelingen. 25: 140-154.
page(s): 144, 151 [details]

basis of record Reid, D. G. (2007). The genus Echinolittorina Habe, 1956 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa. 1420(1): 1-161., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1420.1.1 [details]

Other

additional source Reid, D. G. (1989). The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 324: 1-110., available online at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1989.0040 [details]

additional source Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2004). Speciation and diversity on tropical rocky shores: a global phylogeny of snails of the genus Echinolittorina. Evolution 58(10): 2227–2251 [details]