Scutellastra flexuosa

Scutellastra flexuosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Patelloidea
Family: Patellidae
Genus: Scutellastra
Species: S. flexuosa
Binomial name
Scutellastra flexuosa
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms
  • Patella flexuosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
  • Patella stellaeformis Reeve, 1842
  • Scutellastra optima (Pilsbry, 1904)

Scutellastra flexuosa is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Patellidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]

Subspecies

  • Patella flexuosa flexuosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 in 1832-35
  • Patella flexuosa optima Pilsbry, 1927

Distribution

ventral view

References

  1. ↑ Scutellastra flexuosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.


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