Eoacmaea profunda
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| Eoacmaea profunda | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Eoacmaeoidea |
| Family: | Eoacmaeidae |
| Genus: | Eoacmaea |
| Species: | E. profunda |
| Binomial name | |
| Eoacmaea profunda (Deshayes, 1863) | |
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Eoacmaea profunda is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eoacmaeidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]
Eoacmaea profunda is the type species in the genus Eoacmaea.
Description
basal view
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Aldabra, the Mascarene Basin and Kenya.
References
- 1 2 Eoacmaea profunda (Deshayes, 1863). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. J. conchyliol. 68: 21-74
- Ruwa, R.K. (1984). Invertebrate faunal zonation on rocky shores around Mombasa, Kenya. Kenya Journal of Science and technology Series B 7(2): 41-45
- Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 73(1): 79-99.
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