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Dotted Periwinkle

Littoraria pintado

1,289 observations in the source records

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) slundin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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What the records say

1,289 observations are recorded in the imported source snapshot. Observation source

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Hawaii.

Hawaii	1,166
United States	877
Mexico	1
Colima	1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

Shell-bearingProtected by a hard shellFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Molluscs · Mollusca
Class	Gastropods · Gastropoda
Order	Littorinimorpha
Family	Periwinkle Snails · Littorinidae
Genus	Littoraria

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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