← Back

Pacific sugar limpet

Patelloida saccharina

Classification

Family
Lottiidae

Patelloida saccharina, common name the broad-ribbed limpet, is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets. Subspecies Patelloida saccharina lanx (Reeve, 1855) Patelloida saccharina stella (Lesson, 1831) Description The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 50 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Red Sea, off Tanzania and Madagascar; off Japan and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia) References Allan, J.

Distribution

(c) JH, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by JH · CC-BY
Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1