Common Periwinkle
Illustrated: Live common periwinkle marine snail, thick nearly black brown coiled shell with pointed spire and five-to-six whorls, fine alternating dark-light spiral striae, shallow sutures, thick oval aperture with smooth white columellar area. Grey-black foot and head, two slender tentacles with basal eyes.
Littorina littorea
All languages
- English
- Common Periwinkle
- Norwegian
- storstrandsnegl
- Japanese
- ヨーロッパタマキビ — よーろっぱたまきび — yōroppatamakibi
- Korean
- Littorina littorea — Scientific name; Korean name under review
- Spanish
- Bígaro común
- French
- Bigorneau
- German
- Gemeine Strandschnecke
Beta edition. Illustrations are AI-generated and translations are undergoing language review.