Scutellastra: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Family
- Patellidae
- Genus
- Scutellastra
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Scutellastra
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Scutellastra
Scutellastra is a genus of sea snails with gills, typical true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Patellidae, the true limpets.
In Branch et al. 2002, Scutellastra is mentioned as a genus while according to Vaught it is actually a subgenus. All species listed in Branch et al. as belonging to the genus of Scutellastra were not entered into the database under this genus, but were directly placed under Patella (Scutellastra) - being the right taxonomic classification according to Vaught.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Scutellastra aphanes
- Scutellastra argenvillei
- Scutellastra barbara
- Scutellastra chapmani
- Scutellastra cochlear
- Scutellastra exusta
- Scutellastra flexuosa
- Scutellastra granularis
- Scutellastra kermadecensis
- Scutellastra laticostata
- Scutellastra longicosta
- Scutellastra mexicana
- Scutellastra miliaris
- Scutellastra natalensis
- Scutellastra obtecta
- Scutellastra optima
- Scutellastra peronii
- Scutellastra tabularis
- Scutellastra tucopiana













































































































































