Discurria | |
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Discurria insessa living on a stipe of the feather boa kelp, in California | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
Family: | Lottiidae |
Subfamily: | Lottiinae |
Tribe: | Lottiini |
Genus: | Discurria Lindberg, 1988 [1] |
Type species | |
Patella insessa Hinds, 1842 |
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