Patella rustica

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Rustic limpet
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Patella rustica on rocks
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ventral view of Patella rustica
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P. rustica
Binomial name
Patella rustica
Synonyms [1]
  • Patella gorgonicada Costa, 1771
  • Patella lusitanicaGmelin 1791
  • Patella lusitanica var. minorMarion, 1883
  • Patella nigropunctataReeve, 1854
  • Patella politaRisso, 1826
  • Patella punctataLamarck, 1819
  • Patella punctulataGmelin, 1791 (dubious synonym)
  • Patella rustica var. maroccanaPallary, 1920
  • Patella rustica var. orientalisPallary, 1938
  • Patella squamataRöding, 1798
  • Patella subgranularisde Blainville, 1825
  • Patella variabilisRisso, 1826

Patella rustica, the Lusitanian limpet [2] or rustic limpet [3] 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] It is a rocky shore intertidal mollusc found throughout the Mediterranean and the north-east Atlantic from Mauritania to southern France. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Patella rustica Linnaeus, 1758 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 April 2010.
  2. "Patella rustica Linnaeus, 1758". Catalogue of Life . Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  3. "Edible Molluscs Page 6".
  4. "Recent changes in the distribution of a marine gastropod, Patella rustica, across the Iberian Atlantic coast did not result in diminished genetic diversity or increased connectivity". Sigarra.up.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 June 2021.