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(eukaryotes)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)

PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)

LOPHOTROCHOZOA
(molluscs and relatives)

TROCHOZOA
(molluscs and worms)

MOLLUSCA
(slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs)

GASTROPODA
(slugs and snails)

PROSOBRANCHIA
(operculate molluscs)

MESOGASTROPODA
(an order of prosobranch gastropods)

LITTORINIDAE
(periwinkles)

Littorina
(periwinkles)

Littorina littorea
(Common or Edible Periwinkle or Winkle)

Littorina littorea
is also a member of:

Invertebrates
(via Mollusca)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Littorina littorea (Linnaeus) (Common or Edible Periwinkle or Winkle)

Date:	21 March 2008
OS grid ref:	SW83
Lat/Lon:	50° 10' N, 4° 60' W
Location:	Vice County: East Cornwall, VC2, England
Stage or state:	Living animal
Record Summary:	live animals, on foreshore
Identification Notes:	White columella, transversely striped antennae.

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