Laevilitorina

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Laevilitorina

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Mesogastropoda
Family:	Littorinidae
Genus:	Laevilitorina Pfeiffer, 1886

Species

See text.

Laevilitorina is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.

1 Distribution
2 Habitat
3 Description
4 Species in the genus Laevilitorina
5 References

[edit] Distribution

Circum-Antarctic and sub-Antarctic seas.

[edit] Habitat

These small snails live in the tidal zone of rocky shores.

[edit] Description

The shells are small, ovate-conical, thin, covered by a brownish periostracum. The peristome is sharp-edged, continued across the parietal wall by a slight callus. The radula has a squarish central tooth, bearing three prominent cusps flanked by several denticles, laterals with one large cusp and five small cusps, two in front and three behind the main cusp, and the marginal is fan-shaped and multidentate.