Patellidae

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Noun1.Patellidae - marine limpetsPatellidae - marine limpets      
mollusk family - a family of mollusks
class Gasteropoda, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda - snails and slugs and their relatives
genus Patella, Patella - type genus of the family Patellidae: common European limpets
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Gastropods of family Cerithiidae are the most abundant (840 shells, 41% of the recorded gastropods) while families Fissurellidae, Patellidae, Naticidae, Golmbellidae, Fasciolariidae and Pyramideloidae are represented by less than ten shells for each (Table I, Fig.
Environmentally mediated sex change in the endangered limpet Patella ferruginea (Gastropoda: Patellidae).
ABSTRACT The current study deals with the critically endangered limpet Patella ferruginea (Gastropoda: Patellidae) endemic to the western Mediterranean.
-- -- 38 -- 38 Patellidae 7.1 10.9 27.8 1.7 47.5 Periglypta reticulata 40.3 105.4 158.8 5.8 310.3 Periglypta sp.
Shells (complete and fragments) with a maximum length of [greater than or equal to] 15 mm (and [greater than or equal to] 20 mm for Acmaeidae and Patellidae) were considered of subsistence value and likely to have been purposefully collected by people.
(Gastropoda: Patellidae) (Martorelli & Morriconi 1998), Bartolius sp.
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