Science has not exactly been kind to the rough periwinkle. For one, taxonomists keep forgetting the species, known to malacologists as Littorina saxatilis, exists. It’s been “discovered” so many times ...

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OCEAN CITY - On the cover of the menu at Periwinkles here, there's a three-part definition of the noun periwinkle: 1. An edible marine snail, a gastropod (stomach-footed) with a mystical history of ...

WBOC’s Charles Paparella takes a look and a bite of a food that isn’t much consumed in the United States, that of snails, sometimes called periwinkles.