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Littoraria irrorata (marsh periwinkle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Littoraria irrorata, common name the Marsh periwinkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae. This species occurs in salt marshes on the Atlantic coast and Gulf Coast of North America, from Massachusetts to Texas. Some colonies of this species of snail are the only mollusks known to practice fungiculture.
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Predators

Panopeus herbstii (Atlantic mud crab)[1]

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Citations

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♦ 1Predation by the Black-clawed Mud Crab, Panopeus herbstii, in Mid-Atlantic Salt Marshes: Further Evidence for Top-down Control of Marsh Grass Production, BRIAN REED SILLIMAN, CRAIG A. LAYMAN, KANE GEYER, and J. C. ZIEMAN, Estuaries Vol. 27, No. 2, p. 188–196, April 2004
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0