Cymbula oculus

Cymbula oculus
Five views of a shell of Cymbula oculus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Patelloidea
Family: Patellidae
Genus: Cymbula
Species: C. oculus
Binomial name
Cymbula oculus
(Born, 1778)
Synonyms

Patella oculus Born, 1778[1]

Cymbula oculus is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Patellidae, one of the families of true limpets.[2]

Distribution


References

  1. Born, I. 1778. Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. Vindobonæ: Kraus. [1-40] + 1-458 + [1-82]. (in Latin and German language)
  2. Cymbula oculus (Born, 1778).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.

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