Patelloida saccharina

Patelloida saccharina
Patelloida saccharina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lottiidae
Genus: Patelloida
Species: P. saccharina
Binomial name
Patelloida saccharina
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Acmaea saccharina (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Patelloida stellaris Quoy, H.E.T. & J.P. Gaimard, 1834

Patelloida saccharina, common name the broad-ribbed limpet, is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]

Subspecies

Description

The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, off Tanzania and Madagascar; off Japan and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

References

  1. 1 2 Patelloida saccharina .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.


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