Lucapinella limatula

Lucapinella limatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Emarginullinae
Tribe: Fissurellideini
Genus: Lucapinella
Species: L. limatula
Binomial name
Lucapinella limatula
(Reeve, 1850)
Synonyms
  • Fissurella aculeata Reeve, 1850
  • Fissurella limatula Reeve, 1850
  • Fissurellidea limatula Reeve, 1850
  • Lucapina limatula Reeve, 1850
  • Lucapinella talanteia Olsson & Harbison, 1953

Lucapinella limatula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]

Description

Length 1/2 to 3/4 inches. Shell oval, only moderately elevated; orifice near center and large, often somewhat triangular. Sculpture of alternating larger and smaller radiating ribs, made scaly by concentric wrinkles. Color brownish, with spotted whitish rays; interior white.


Distribution

This species occurs in moderately deep water in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verdes, West Africa, Angola; in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles.

References

Morris, P.A. (1973) "A Field Guide to Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies," Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

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