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Species of gastropod
Scutellastra flexuosa
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:
Patelloidea
Family:
Patellidae
Genus:
Scutellastra
Species:
S. flexuosa
Binomial name
Scutellastra flexuosa
Synonyms
Patella (Ancistromesus) stellaeformis Reeve, 1842
Patella (Scutellastra) stellaeformis Reeve, 1842
Patella alba Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841 (invalid: junior homonym of Patella alba da Costa, 1771 )
Patella cretacea Reeve, 1854
Patella flexuosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
Patella moreli Deshayes, 1863
Patella paumotensis Gould, 1846
Patella stellaeformis Reeve, 1842
Patella stellaeformis tuamutuensis Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933
Patella tara Prashad & Rao, 1934
Penepatella inquisitor Iredale, 1929 (junior synonym)
Scutellastra flexuosa is a
species of
sea snail , a
true limpet , a marine
gastropod
mollusc in the
family
Patellidae , one of the families of true limpets.
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The length of the shell attains 25.4 mm.
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This marine species occurs off
Mauritius and
Vanikoro (Solomon Island).
ventral view
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Quoy, J. R. C. & Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.
Reeve, L. A. (1841-1842). Conchologia Systematica, or complete system of conchology; in which the Lepades and conchiferous Mollusca are described and classified according to their natural organization and habits. Longman, Brown, Green, & Longman's, London. Vol. 1: 1-195, pls 1-129; Vol. 2: 1-338, pls 130-300
Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1-144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris
Reeve, L. A. (1854-1855). Monograph of the genus Patella. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 8, pls 1-42 and unpaginated tex. L. Reeve & Co., London.
Gould, A.A. 1846. New shells, collected by the United States Exploring Expedition, and belong to the genus Patella. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 148-152
Iredale, T. (1929). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 9(3): 261-297, pls 30-31
Hombron, J. B. & Jacquinot, C. H. (1841). Description de quelques mollusques provenant de la campagne de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, ser. 2, Zoologie. 16: 62-65, 190-192
Koufopanou, V., Reid, D.G., Ridgeway, S.A., & Thomas, R.H. (1999). A molecular phylogeny of the patellid limpets (Gastropoda: Patellidae) and its implications for the origins of their antitropical distribution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 11(1): 138-156
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