Tectura

Tectura
A live individual of Tectura palacea on a blade of Phyllospadix seagrass
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lottiidae
Genus: Tectura
Gray, 1847
Type species
Patella parva da Costa, 1778
Synonyms

Acmaea (Tectura) Gray, 1847

Tectura is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lottiidae.[1]

Species

Species in the genus Tectura include:[2]

Species brought into synonymy 

References

  1. Gofas, S. (2011). Tectura. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138142 on 2011-02-08
  2. Tectura. NMR Collection Database, Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, accessed 5 December 2009.


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