Cymbula granatina
| Cymbula granatina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Patelloidea |
| Family: | Patellidae |
| Genus: | Cymbula |
| Species: | C. granatina |
| Binomial name | |
| Cymbula granatina (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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Cymbula granatina is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Patellidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]
Description
The size of the shell varies between 50 mm and 90 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off South Africa.
References
- ↑ Cymbula granatina (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.
- Koufopanou et al (1999). A molecular phylogeny of the patellid limpets (Gastropoda: Patellidae) and its implications for the origins of their antitropical distribution Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 11(1):138-156
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