Eoacmaea pustulata

Eoacmaea pustulata
top view of a shell of Eoacmaea pustulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Eoacmaeoidea
Family: Eoacmaeidae
Genus: Eoacmaea
Species: E. pustulata
Binomial name
Eoacmaea pustulata
(Helbling, 1779)
Synonyms[1]
  • Acmaea puncturata (Lamarck, 1819)
  • Acmaea pustulata (Helbling, 1779)
  • Patella puncturata Lamarck, 1819
  • Patella pustulata Helbling, 1779 (original combination)
  • Patelloida pustulata (Helbling, 1779)

Eoacmaea pustulata 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]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico.

References


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