''Patella rustica'', the Lusitanian limpet or rustic limpet is a
species
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of
sea snail, a
true limpet, a marine
gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the
family
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Patellidae
Patellidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda.
(The superfamily Patelloidea should not be confused with the similar-sounding genus of true limpets '' Patelloida'' which ...
, one of the families of true limpets.
It is a rocky shore intertidal mollusc found throughout the Mediterranean and the north-east Atlantic from Mauritania to southern France.
Description
Distribution
References
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp
External links
Somali.asso.fr: ''Patella rustica''
Patellidae
Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea
Marine molluscs of Europe
Marine molluscs of Africa
Gastropods described in 1758
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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