Lucapina sowerbii

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Lucapina sowerbii
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Top and underside view of a shell of Lucapina sowerbii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Lucapina
Species:
L. sowerbii
Binomial name
Lucapina sowerbii
(Sowerby, 1835)

Lucapina sowerbii, common name Sowerby's fleshy limpet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. [1]

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil; in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles.

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