Helcion pruinosus

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Helcion pruinosus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Patellogastropoda
Family: Patellidae
Genus: Helcion
Species:
H. pruinosus
Binomial name
Helcion pruinosus
(Krauss, 1848)

Helcion pruinosus, common name the rayed limpet, 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]

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