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Eoacmaea profunda

Eoacmaea profunda
Patelloida profunda 002.jpg
Eoacmaea profunda shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Eoacmaeoidea
Family: Eoacmaeidae
Genus: Eoacmaea
Species: E. profunda
Binomial name
Eoacmaea profunda
(Deshayes, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Acmaea profunda (Deshayes)
  • Helcioniscus profundus Deshayes, 1863 (original combination)
  • Hemitoma profunda (Deshayes, 1863)
  • Patella profunda Deshayes, 1863
  • Patelloida profunda (Deshayes, 1863)
  • Patelloida profunda albonotata (E. A. Smith, 1910)
  • Patelloida profunda profunda (Deshayes, 1863)

Eoacmaea profunda is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eoacmaeidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Eoacmaea profunda is the type species in the genus Eoacmaea.

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Aldabra, the Mascarene Basin and Kenya.



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