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Checkered Periwinkle There's a little black snail inside that checked shell, but he's quite shy and wouldn't show much at all. These were rather abundant, although many of the shells were no longer inhabited by periwinkles at all, but rather the adopted home of a legion of tiny little hermit crabs. Littorina scutulata Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Checkered Periwinkle

There's a little black snail inside that checked shell, but he's quite shy and wouldn't show much at all. These were rather abundant, although many of the shells were no longer inhabited by periwinkles at all, but rather the adopted home of a legion of tiny little hermit crabs.

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    Ferdy Christant
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    You're introducing so many new species, you may be close to the hardest medal to earn:
    http://www.jungledragon.com/medals/pioneer     Posted 11 years ago
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    I am working my hardest :) and really focusing on bringing things in that aren't already represented. I think that perhaps that I am also fortunate that there don't seem to be too many of us Pacific Northwesters here and that we have a lot of somewhat unique plants and animals in the area - heck even our seemingly common deer turned out to be a unique subspecies. I have been surprised at times about some things. I expected that sea otters would already be here, since they are cute, cuddly and raised at a lot of zoos. Posted 11 years ago
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      Ferdy Christant
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      You may be surprised to know that less than a year ago, USA was severely underrepresented, showing an almost empty map. Now, even with a handful of active users from there, the map is nicely filling up.

      As for species introductions, yes that sea otter surprised me as well, but then again, the site knows 4,000 species...out of....2 million.

      (quick note: please reply to comments to make sure that the other commenter gets a notification, otherwise they may not see it)       Posted 11 years ago

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The Checkered Periwinkle

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

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Similar species: Littorinimorpha
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