Tectura

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Phylum:Mollusca
Superfamily:Lottioidea
Tectura
A live individual of Tectura palacea on a blade of Phyllospadix seagrass
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lottiidae
Subfamily: Tecturinae
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 molluscs in the family Lottiidae.[1] Tectura comes from Latin tegō ("I cover").

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