Periwinkle Snails - Family: Littorinidae
Subfamiluy: Lacuninae
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Gold-mouthed Coniwink - Bembicium auratum
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Common Coniwink - Bembicium melanostonum
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Striped-mouthed Coniwink - Bembicium nanum
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Subfamily: Laevilitorininae
Laevilitorina mariae (possible occurrence)
Subfamily: Littorininae
Afrolittorina scutispira
Little Blue Periwinkle - Austrolittorina unifasciata
Common Granulate Periwinkle - Echinolittorina vidua
Thin Periwinkle - Littoraria filosa
Purple Estuarine Periwinkle - Littoraria intermedia
Littoraria luteola
Littoraria philippiana
Rough Periwinkle - Littoraria scabra
Undulate Periwinkle - Littoraria undulata
Pyramid Noddiwink - Nodilittorina pyramidalis
Tectarius sp.
Taxonomy:
Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
> Class: Gastropoda (Gastropods)
> Subclass: Caenogastropoda (Caenogastropods)
> Order: Littoerinimorpha
> Superfamily: Littorinoidea (Periwinkle Snails and Allies)
> Family: Littorinidae (Periwinkles Snails)
> Subfamily: Lacuninae
> Genus: Bembicium
> Species: B. auratum - Gold-mouthed Coniwink
> Species: B. melanostomum - Common Coniwink
> Species: B. nanum- Striped-mouthed Coniwink
> Subfamily: Laevilitorininae
> Genus: Laevilitorina
> Species: L. mariae ^
> Subfamily: Littorininae
> Genus: Afrolittorina
> Species: A. scutispira
> Genus: Austrolittorina
> Species: A. unifasciata - Little Blue Periwinkle
> Genus: Echinolittorina
> Species: E. vidua - Common Granulate Periwinkle
> Genus: Littoraria
> Species: L. filosa - Thin Periwinkle
> Species: L. intermedia - Purple Estuarine Periwinkle
> Species: L. luteola
> Species: L. philippiana
> Species: L. scabra - Rough Periwinkle
> Species: L. undulata - Undulate Periwinkle
> Genus: Nodilittorina
> Species: N. pyramidalis - Pyramid Noddiwink
> Genus: Tectarius
> Species: ?
^ = possibly
* = likely
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