Cellana flava
| Cellana flava | |
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| Cellana flava | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
| Family: | Nacellidae |
| Genus: | Cellana |
| Species: | C. flava |
| Binomial name | |
| Cellana flava (Martyn, 1784) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Patella flava Hutton, 1873 | |
Cellana flava is a species of true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets.
This species is easily identified on the basis of the orange colour of its shell and the light coloured head and foot.
basal view
References
- Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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