Lacuna parva

Lacuna parva, common name the tiny lacuna, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.

Lacuna parva
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Littorinidae
Genus:	Lacuna
Species:	L. parva
Binomial name
Lacuna parva (da Costa, 1778)
Synonyms
Cochlea parva da Costa, 1778 Helix fasciata J. Adams, 1800 Helix lacuna Montagu, 1803 · Lacuna (Epheria) fasciata (J. Adams, 1800) Lacuna intermedia Locard, 1886 Lacuna puteolina Locard, 1886 Lacuna puteolus (Turton, 1819) Lacuna puteolus var. clausa Jeffreys, 1865 Lacuna puteolus var. conica Jeffreys, 1865 Lacuna puteolus var. expansa Jeffreys, 1865 Lacuna puteolus var. lactea Jeffreys, 1865 Lacuna puteolus var. plicata J. T. Marshall, 1893 Turbo puteolus W. Turton, 1819

Distribution

• Southern Cape Cod and Nantucket, Massachusetts
• Distribution similar with L. vincta but extending further south to Spanish coasts

References

• Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls

External links

• Da Costa, Mendes E. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois., i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, (1), Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson).
• Adams, J. (1800). Descriptions of some minute British shells. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 5(1): 1-6
• Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16
• Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp
• Turton, W. (1819) A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands. J. Booth, London, xxvii + 272 pp., 28 pls
• effreys J.G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341
• Marshall J.T. (1893). Additions to 'British Conchology' (Part I). Journal of Conchology. 7: 241-265
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
• Ockelmann, K. W. & Nielsen, C. (1981). On the biology of the prosobranch Lacuna parva in the Øresund. Ophelia. 20(1): 1-16
• Reid D.G. (1989) The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 324: 1-110