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Helcion

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Patelloidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Patellidae

Rank
  
Genus

Helcion

Similar
  
Patella pellucida, Helcion pruinosus, Patellidae, Helcion pectunculus, Scutellastra

Helcion is a genus of sea snails, true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Patellidae.

Contents

Helcion circles


Species

Species within the genus Helcion include:

Subgenus Ansates : accepted as Ansates G.B. Sowerby II [ex Klein], 1839

  • Helcion pellucidum - Blue-rayed limpet : accepted as Ansates pellucida (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Helcion tella

    • Subgenus Helcion

  • Helcion pectunculus (Gmelin, 1791)

    • Subgenus Patinastra

  • Helcion dunkeri (Krauss, 1848)
  • Helcion pruinosus (Krauss, 1848)

    • subgenus ?

  • Helcion concolor (Krauss, 1848)

    • References

    Helcion Wikipedia
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