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Patella rangiana A. de Rochebrune, 1882

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  family Patellidae »  genus Patella - limpet

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Patella rangiana

Author: Rochebrune

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Description

Description of Pilsbry: "Shell ovate, depressed-convex, rufous; vertex submucronate, usually eroded, situated at 2/3 of the length; having larger and smaller radiating broad, very scaly ribs, scales subimbricating, obtuse, lenticular; margin undulating; interior bluish, silvery-pearly, rayed with bands and spots of purplish, the center spatulate." Length 44.0 mm; Width 36.0 mm; Height 19.0 mm.
Source: Powell, 1973. The Patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae).

Interchangeable taxa

This species, which Powell has not seen, appears to be a distinctive one, with its very-scaly prominent radial ribs.

Distribution

Porto Praya, Cape Verde Islands.
Author: Jan Delsing

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