African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Littorininae Children, 1834

AfReMaS taxon details

Littorininae Children, 1834

AphiaID

153707 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153707)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Subfamily

Parent

Littorinidae Children, 1834

Original name

Littorinidae Children, 1834

Synonymised names

Echinininae Rosewater, 1972 · unaccepted

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Genus Afrolittorina S. T. Williams, D. Reid & Littlewood, 2003
Genus Echinolittorina T. Habe, 1956
Genus Littoraria J. E. Gray, 1833
Genus Littorina A. Férussac, 1822
Genus Melarhaphe Menke, 1828
Genus Nodilittorina E. von Martens, 1897
Genus Peasiella G. Nevill, 1885
Genus Tectarius Valenciennes, 1832
Genus Litorina [sic] accepted as Littorina A. Férussac, 1822 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
Genus Melaraphe Menke, 1828 accepted as Melarhaphe Menke, 1828 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
Genus Risella Gray, 1842 accepted as Bembicium R. A. Philippi, 1846 (Declared nomen oblitum by Reid (1988))

Environment

marine, brackish, terrestrial

Original description

(of Littorinidae Children, 1834) Children J.G. (1834). [Mollusca]. Pp. 88-118, in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 28: 88-118. [Authorship attributed to Children after G. Steiner & A.R. Kabat, 2001, Zoosystema, 23(3): 454-455].
page(s): 110 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Littorininae Children, 1834. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153707 on 2026-02-17

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Littorininae Children, 1834. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153707 on 2026-02-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-15 07:47:28Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2009-03-27 17:40:10Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2010-08-31 03:55:10Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-06-28 12:47:57Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-08-29 10:44:02Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2025-12-23 21:59:24Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Littorinidae Children, 1834) Children J.G. (1834). [Mollusca]. Pp. 88-118, in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 28: 88-118. [Authorship attributed to Children after G. Steiner & A.R. Kabat, 2001, Zoosystema, 23(3): 454-455].
page(s): 110 [details]

original description (of Echinininae Rosewater, 1972) Rosewater, J. (1972). The family Littorinidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part II. The subfamilies Tectarinae and Echininae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 2(12): 507-533, pls 388-408., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46312878 [details]

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