Bittium latreillii Latreille's Needle Whelk

Bittium latreillii is commonly referred to as Latreille's Needle Whelk. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

17604 

AphiaID:

139052 

Scientific:

Bittium latreillii 

German:

Latreilles Nadelschnecke 

English:

Latreille's Needle Whelk 

Category:

Escargots de mer 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda incertae sedis (Order) > Cerithiidae (Family) > Bittium (Genus) > latreillii (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Payraudeau, ), 1826 

Occurrence:

Tunesien, Azores, European Coasts, Greece, Gulf of Naples, Italy, Madeira, Malta, North Atlantic Ocean, Spain, The Aegan Sea (Mediterranean), the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey 

Marine Zone:

Intertidal (Eulittoral), intertidal zone between the high and low tide lines characterized by the alternation of low and high tide down to 15 meters 

Sea depth:

1 - 40 Meter 

Habitats:

Coastal waters, Intertidal zone, Tidal Zone, Kelp forests, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

0,8 cm 

Temperature:

°F - 77 °F (°C - 25°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Detritus 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Bittium aedonium
• Bittium alutaceum
• Bittium anembatum
• Bittium arenaense
• Bittium arnoldi
• Bittium atramentarium
• Bittium bartolomense
• Bittium casmaliense
• Bittium cerralvoense
• Bittium chrysomallum
• Bittium circa
• Bittium delicatum
• Bittium depauperatum
• Bittium giganteum
• Bittium impendens
• Bittium incile
• Bittium lacteum
• 
  Bittium latreillii
  Latreilles Nadelschnecke
• Bittium lusciniae
• Bittium mexicanum
• Bittium midwayense
• Bittium nanum
• Bittium nicholsi
• Bittium ornatissimum
• Bittium panamense
• Bittium peruvianum
• Bittium philomelae
• Bittium pigrum
• Bittium proteum
• Bittium quadricinctum
• 
  Bittium reticulatum
  Gitterschnecke
• Bittium santamariense
• Bittium simplex
• Bittium submammillatum
• Bittium vancouverense
• Bittium watsoni
• Alle anzeigen

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2025-07-15 13:09:18 

Last edit:

2025-07-15 13:31:28 

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