Lottia leucopleura is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.[1]
Lottia leucopleura | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
Family: | Lottiidae |
Genus: | Lottia |
Species: | L. leucopleura
|
Binomial name | |
Lottia leucopleura (Gmelin, 1791)
| |
Synonyms | |
|
Description
editThis section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (April 2010) |
Distribution
editThis species lives in the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico.
References
edit- ^ Lottia leucopleura (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.
- Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas