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Cosmetalepas
Sign in to saveCosmetalepas, common name the pitted keyhole limpets, is a genus of minute deepwater keyhole limpets, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Species
Pitted Keyhole Limpet
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLepetellida
- FamilyFissurellidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 251
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Fissurellidae
- Collections
- NMV, UCMP, USNM, TMAG
- Recorded in
- Australia, Philippines
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Diodorinae
- Image
- Cosmetalepas africana 002.jpg
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Cosmetalepas, common name the pitted keyhole limpets, is a genus of minute deepwater keyhole limpets, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
==Species== Cosmetalepas africana Tomlin, 1926 Cosmetalepas concatenata (Crosse & Fischer, 1864) Cosmetalepas massieri Poppe, Tagaro & Sarino, 2011 Cosmetalepas scutellum (Gmelin) Species brought into synonymy: Cosmetalepas africanus [sic] : synonym of Cosmetalepas africana (Tomlin, 1926) Cosmetalepas concatenatus (Crosse & Fischer, 1864): synonym of Cosmetalepas concatenata (Crosse & Fischer, 1864)
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