Patelloida saccharina

Patelloida saccharina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Family:	Lottiidae
Genus:	Patelloida
Species:	P. saccharina
Binomial name
Patelloida saccharina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms [1]
Acmaea saccharina(Linnaeus, 1758) Patelloida stellarisQuoy, H.E.T. & J.P. Gaimard, 1834

Patelloida saccharina, common name the broad-ribbed limpet, is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets. ^[1]

Subspecies

• Patelloida saccharina lanx(Reeve, 1855)
• Patelloida saccharina stella(Lesson, 1831)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, off Tanzania and Madagascar; off Japan and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

References

1. Patelloida saccharina . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 April 2010.

• Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian Shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs.
• Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp.
• Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1): 79–99

External links

• "Patelloida saccharina saccharina". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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