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Lucapina sp.01 keyhole limpet

Lucapina sp.01is commonly referred to as keyhole limpet. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 100 Liter is recommended.


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lexID:
4184 
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Scientific:
Lucapina sp.01 
German:
Schnecke 
English:
Keyhole Limpet 
Category:
Snails 
Family tree:
Lucapina (Genus) > sp.01 (Species) 
Occurrence:
the Caribbean 
Size:
up to 1.97" (5 cm) 
Temperature:
73.4 °F - 80.6 °F (23°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Algae 
Tank:
22 gal (~ 100L)  
Difficulty:
Average 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Lucapina adspersa
  • Lucapina aegis
  • Lucapina elisae
  • Lucapina eolis
  • Lucapina maullina
  • Lucapina philippiana
  • Lucapina sowerbii
  • Lucapina suffusa
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2012-03-09 08:54:59 

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Lucapina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets

Species within the genus Lucapina include:

Lucapina adspersa (Philippi, 1845)
Lucapina aegis (Reeve, 1850)
Lucapina elisae Costa & Simone, 2006
Lucapina eolis Pérez Farfante, 1945
Lucapina limatula Reeve, 1850
Lucapina philippiana (Finlay, 1930)
Lucapina sowerbii (Sowerby I, 1835)
Lucapina suffusa (Reeve, 1850)

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Emarginullinae
Tribe: Fissurellideini
Genus: Lucapina
Sowerby, 1835

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