Scutellastra argenvillei

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Scutellastra argenvillei
Scutellastra argenvillei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Patelloidea
Family: Patellidae
Genus: Scutellastra
Species: S. argenvillei
Binomial name
Scutellastra argenvillei
(Krauss, 1848)
Synonyms
  • Patella (Scutellastra) argenvillei Krauss, 1848
  • Patella argenvillei Krauss, 1848

Scutellastra argenvillei is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Patellidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]

Description

This marine species occurs off Namibia and South Africa.

Scutellastra argenvillei, ventral view

References

  • Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 37
  • Koufopanou et al (1999). A molecular phylogeny of the patellid limpets (Gastropoda: Patellidae) and its implications for the origins of their antitropical distribution Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 11(1):138-156
  • Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg
  • Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99.
  • Wurz, Sarah (2012). "The significance of MIS 5 shell middens on the Cape coast: A lithic perspective from Klasies River and Ysterfontein 1". Quaternary International 270: 61–69. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.032. ISSN 1040-6182. 
  • Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Anna; Galil, Bella S. (2004). "A uniform terminology on bioinvasions: a chimera or an operative tool?". Marine Pollution Bulletin 49 (9-10): 688–694. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2004.08.011. ISSN 0025-326X. 



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