Description
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| Gorgoleptis patulus | |
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
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| Species: | G. patulus |
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| Gorgoleptis patulus McLean, 1988 | |
Gorgoleptis patulus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lepetodrilidae. [1]
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