True limpets Temporal range:
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Images of true limpets, shell and live individuals of three species | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Patellogastropoda Lindberg, 1986 |
Superfamilies and families | |
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The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade[2] or as a taxonomic order.[3]
The clade Patellogastropoda is deemed monophyletic based on phylogenetic analysis.[4]
Nakano 2007
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