Lucapina sowerbii

Lucapina sowerbii
Top and underside view of a shell of Lucapina sowerbii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Diodorinae
Genus: Lucapina
Species: L. sowerbii
Binomial name
Lucapina sowerbii
(Sowerby I, 1835)

Lucapina sowerbii, common name Sowerby's fleshy limpet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil; in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles.

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