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Scutus
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLepetellida
- FamilyFissurellidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 202
- With media
- 34
- Family
- Fissurellidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CAS, DMNH, USNM, NMV, YPM
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Japan, Seychelles, Fiji
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Fissurellidae
- Image
- Scutus breviculus (top).JPG
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- taxon name
- Scutus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Scutus
- Commons category
- Scutus
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Description
- Species
- References
- External links
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scutus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.