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Scutellastra
Sign in to saveScutellastra is a genus of sea snails with gills, typical true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Patellidae, the true limpets.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderPatellida
- FamilyPatellidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 252
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Patellidae
- Collections
- UF, TMAG, NMV, AM, SDSM
- Recorded in
- Oman, Australia, Mariana Islands, Seychelles, Federated States Of Micronesia, Mascarene Islands, Tuvalu, New Zealand
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Patellidae
- Image
- Scutellastra granularis 001.jpg
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- Commons category
- Scutellastra
- taxon name
- Scutellastra
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- H. & A. Adams, 1854
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Scutellastra is a genus of sea snails with gills, typical true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Patellidae, the true limpets.
In Branch et al. 2002, Scutellastra is mentioned as a genus while according to Vaught it is actually a subgenus. All species listed in Branch et al. as belonging to the genus of Scutellastra were not entered into the database under this genus, but were directly placed under Patella (Scutellastra) - being the right taxonomic classification according to Vaught.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scutellastra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.