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Littorina arcana

Littorina arcana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.

Littorina arcana has a shell largely indistinguishable from Littorina saxatilis. It breeds by laying egg masses, whereas L. saxatilis produces crawl-away young, so the animals can be distinguished by dissection only.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 964427.