Tegula patagonica
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| Tegula patagonica | |
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| Drawing with two views of a shell of Tegula patagonica | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Family: | Tegulidae |
| Genus: | Tegula |
| Species: | T. patagonica |
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| Tegula patagonica | |
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Tegula patagonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.[2]
The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 21 mm. The thick, umbilicate shell has an orbiculate-conical shape. It is transversely narrowly granulose-sulcate. It has a uniform brownish or purplish color. The spire is conic. The apex is obtuse. The five whorls are subcarinate with sutures excavated. The aperture is rounded. The columella is bidentate.