Scutellastra flexuosa

Scutellastra flexuosa
Scutellastra flexuosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Patelloidea
Family: Patellidae
Genus: Scutellastra
Species: S. flexuosa
Binomial name
Scutellastra flexuosa
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms
  • Patella flexuosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
  • Patella stellaeformis Reeve, 1842
  • Scutellastra optima (Pilsbry, 1904)

Scutellastra flexuosa 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]

Subspecies

Distribution

ventral view

References


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/13/2011. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.