Echinolittorina ziczac

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Scientific:: Echinolittorina ziczac
German:: Schnecke
English:: zebra periwinkle

Category:: Escargots de mer
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Littorinidae (Family) > Echinolittorina (Genus) > ziczac (Species)
Initial determination:: (Gmelin, ), 1791

Occurrence:: Venezuela, Costa Rica, Caraïbes, Colombie, Mexique (Nord-est du Pacifique), Panama
Size:: 2 cm - 2.3 cm
Temperature:: 22°C - 27°C
Food:: Detritus, algues
Tank:: ~ 50 Liter
Difficulty:: facile

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Echinolittorina albicarinata
Echinolittorina angustior
Echinolittorina apicina
Echinolittorina arabica
Echinolittorina aspera
Echinolittorina atrata
Echinolittorina australis
Echinolittorina austrotrochoides
Echinolittorina biangulata
Echinolittorina caboverdensis
Echinolittorina cecillei
Echinolittorina cinerea
Echinolittorina conspersa
Echinolittorina dilatata
Echinolittorina dubiosa
Echinolittorina feejeensis
Echinolittorina fuscolineata
Echinolittorina granosa
Echinolittorina hawaiiensis
Echinolittorina helenae
Echinolittorina interrupta
Echinolittorina jamaicensis
Echinolittorina lemniscata
Echinolittorina leucosticta
Echinolittorina lineolata
Echinolittorina malaccana
Echinolittorina marisrubri
Echinolittorina marquesensis
Echinolittorina melanacme
Echinolittorina meleagris
Echinolittorina mespillum
Echinolittorina miliaris
Echinolittorina millegrana
Echinolittorina modesta
Echinolittorina natalensis
Echinolittorina novaezelandiae
Echinolittorina omanensis
Echinolittorina parcipicta
Echinolittorina pascua
Echinolittorina paytensis
Echinolittorina penicillata
Echinolittorina peregrinator
Echinolittorina peruviana
Echinolittorina philippinensis
Echinolittorina placida
Echinolittorina porcata
Echinolittorina pulchella
Echinolittorina punctata
Echinolittorina quadricincta
Echinolittorina radiata
Echinolittorina reticulata
Echinolittorina santelenae
Echinolittorina soroziczac
Echinolittorina subnodosa
Echinolittorina sundaica
Echinolittorina tenuistriata
Echinolittorina tricincta
Echinolittorina tuberculata
Echinolittorina vermeiji
Echinolittorina vidua
Echinolittorina wallaceana
Echinolittorina ziczac
Schnecke

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2013-10-04 16:30:52
Last edit:: 2013-10-04 16:30:52

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Echinolittorina ziczac (Gmelin, 1791)

Echinolittorina ziczac,common name the "zebra periwinkle", is a small sea snail.

This sea snail lives in tropical shallow water and is very common.Echinolittorina ziczac is herbivorous scrapping the surface of the rocks on which it lives in order to graze on microalgae and also consume dedritus.

Echinolittorina ziczac is often are often confused with Echinolittorina jamacensis.The differences are very small.

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) >Littorinoidea (Superfamily) > Littorinidae (Family) >Littorininae (Subfamily) > Echinolittorina (Genus)

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