Eoacmaea profunda

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Eoacmaea profunda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Eoacmaeoidea
Family: Eoacmaeidae
Genus: Eoacmaea
Species: E. profunda
Binomial name
Eoacmaea profunda
(Deshayes, 1863)
Synonyms[1]
  • Helcioniscus profundus Deshayes, 1863 (original combination)
  • Hemitoma profunda (Deshayes, 1863)
  • Patella profunda Deshayes, 1863

Eoacmaea profunda 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]

Eoacmaea profunda is the type species in the genus Eoacmaea.

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Eoacmaea profunda (Deshayes, 1863).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. J. conchyliol. 68: 21-74
  • Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 73(1): 79-99.

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