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Banded Chink Shell
Lacuna vincta
Classification
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Littorinidae
Lacuna vincta, commonly known as northern lacuna, wide lacuna, northern chink shell, or banded chink shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles. It is found intertidally and in shallow waters in both the northern Atlantic Ocean and the northern Pacific Ocean. It is a herbivore, feeding on seaweed and diatoms with its toothed radula.
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Distribution
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
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