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Lacuna parva (da Costa 1778)

Lacuna parva

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Lacuna parva, common name the tiny lacuna, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.[1]

Distribution

  • Southern Cape Cod and Nantucket, Massachusetts
  • Distribution similar with L. vincta but extending further south to Spanish coasts

References

  1. ^ a b Lacuna parva (da Costa, 1778). Gofas, S. (2009). Lacuna parva (da Costa, 1778). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140169 on 6 June 2010 .
  • Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls

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Lacuna parva: Brief Summary

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Lacuna parva, common name the tiny lacuna, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.

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Distribution

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Southern Cape Cod and Nantucket Massachusetts

Reference

North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

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Distribution

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Distribution similer with L. vincta but extending further south to Spanish coasts

Reference

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

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Identification

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There is a resemblance between L. parva and the juvenile species of L. pallidula . According to Thorson (1946) it concerned to two different species.

Reference

Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.

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