
Periwinkle Snails and Allies
Littorinoidea
Littorinoidea are a superfamily of both sea snails and land snails which have a gill and an operculum, terrestrial and marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.
5 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Periwinkle Snails
familyLittorinidae

Land Winkles
familyPomatiidae

Annulariidae
familyAnnulariidae

Skeneopsidae
familySkeneopsidae
Zerotulidae
familyZerotulidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 482298.