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of sea snail, a

true limpet The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade or as a taxonomic order. The clade Patellogastropoda is ...

, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Lottiidae Lottiidae is a family of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea and the clade Patellogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Subfamilies ...

, one of the families of true limpets.

Description

Distribution

References

* Ramírez-Böhme Ramírez BoehmeJ. (1974) Nuevas especies chilenas de Lucapina, Fissurella y Collisella (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Boletin, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural antiago de Chile33: 15-34. * Ni IH. & Qian PY. (1999). Study on the suitability of Shelter Island Area to be established as marine park or marine reserve. Final report. Submitted to the Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department, The Hong Kong SAR Government. * Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1): 79–99

External links

Gray, J. E. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1839). Molluscous animals and their shells. Pp. 103-155, pls 33-34 [pp. 103-142 by J. E. Gray, 143-155 by G. B. Sowerby I
In: The zoology of Capt. Beechey's voyage, compiled from the collections on notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's straits in his Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28. London pp. XII + 186 + 44 pl. ]
Philippi, R.A. (1846). Diagnosen einiger neuen Conchylien-Arten. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 3(2): 19–24 [28 February
3(4): 49–55 ">8 February">Philippi, R.A. (1846). Diagnosen einiger neuen Conchylien-Arten. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 3(2): 19–24 [28 February
3(4): 49–55
Marincovich, L. (1973). Intertidal Mollusks of Iquique, Chile. Los Angeles Co. Museum of Natural History, Science Bulletin. 16: 1-49, 102 figs

Gould, A. A. (1846). Descriptions of new shells, collected by the United States Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 141-145, 148-152

Reeve, L. A. (1854-1855). Monograph of the genus Patella. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 8, pls 1-42 and unpaginated tex. L. Reeve & Co., London.
Lottiidae Gastropods described in 1839 {{Lottiidae-stub