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Duck-billed Limpets
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Duck-billed Limpets

Scutus

Scutus is a genus of large sea snails or limpets with the common name "shield shells". These are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

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10 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Elephant Snail

speciesScutus antipodes

Shield Shell

speciesScutus breviculus

Hoof-shield limpet

speciesScutus unguis

Scutus sinensis

speciesScutus sinensis

Scutus forsythi

speciesScutus forsythi

Scutus howensis

speciesScutus howensis

Scutus rueppelli

speciesScutus rueppelli

Scutus petrafixus

speciesScutus petrafixus

Scutus virgo

speciesScutus virgo

Scutus olunguis

speciesScutus olunguis

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Recorded sightings

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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 50692.