Scutellastra tabularis
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(unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda
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Scutellastra tabularis (Krauss, 1848)
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Scutellastra tabularis 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]
Description
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Distribution
This marine species occurs off the south coast of South Africa.
References
- ^ Scutellastra tabularis (Krauss, 1848). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.
- Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 38
- Koufopanou et al. (1999). A molecular phylogeny of the patellid limpets (Gastropoda: Patellidae) and its implications for the origins of their antitropical distribution Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 11(1):138-156
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