Lucapina adspersa

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Lucapina adspersa
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Lucapina adspersa, photographed in the Bonaire National Marine Park in 2011.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Lucapina
Species:
L. adspersa
Binomial name
Lucapina adspersa
(Philippi, 1845)

Lucapina adspersa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. [1]

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