Lottia leucopleura

Lottia leucopleura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lottiidae
Genus: Lottia
Species: L. leucopleura
Binomial name
Lottia leucopleura
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
  • Acmaea leucopleura (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Patella leucopleura Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)

Lottia leucopleura is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]

Distribution

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

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