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Shelf Limpets
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Shelf Limpets

Sigapatella

Sigapatella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails, Chinese hat snails, and cup-and-saucer snails.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Sigapatella novaezelandiae

speciesSigapatella novaezelandiae

Shelf Limpet

speciesSigapatella calyptraeformis

Sigapatella tenuis

speciesSigapatella tenuis

Hedley's Shelf Limpet

speciesSigapatella hedleyi

Sigapatella terraenovae

speciesSigapatella terraenovae

Sigapatella superstes

speciesSigapatella superstes

Sigapatella spadicea

speciesSigapatella spadicea

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 378138.