Definition of Family Littorinidae

1. Noun. Periwinkles.

Exact synonyms: Littorinidae
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Class Gasteropoda, Class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda
Member holonyms: Genus Littorina, Littorina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Littorinidae

family Lepidodendraceae
family Lepiotaceae
family Lepismatidae
family Lepisosteidae
family Leporidae
family Leptodactylidae
family Leptotyphlopidae
family Liliaceae
family Limacidae
family Limulidae
family Linaceae
family Liopelmidae
family Liparidae
family Liparididae
family Lithodidae
family Littorinidae (current term)
family Loasaceae
family Lobeliaceae
family Lobotidae
family Locustidae
family Loganiaceae
family Lomariopsidaceae
family Lophiidae
family Lophosoriaceae
family Loranthaceae
family Lorisidae
family Loxomataceae
family Lucanidae
family Lutjanidae
family Luvaridae

Literary usage of Family Littorinidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Monograph of the Molluscan Fauna of the Orthaulax Pugnax Zone of the by William Healey Dall (1915)
"This is, perhaps, the finest and largest species of the genus. Family LITTORINIDAE. Genus LACUNA Turton. l.ai-unn ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1901)
"... be picked out from small examples of D. lauta. In the original description it is recorded as not uncommon in the Korea and Japan. Family LITTORINIDAE. ..."

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