''Lepeta caeca'',
common name the northern blind limpet, is a
species
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of
sea snail, a
true limpet, a marine
gastropod mollusk
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in the
family
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Lepetidae
Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or small, deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda the true limpets.
Taxonomy
This family consists of the two following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy ...
, one of the families of true limpets.
Distribution
Description
The maximum recorded
shell
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** Thin-shell structure
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* Seashell, a hard o ...
length is 18 mm.
[Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.]
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 4 m.
Maximum recorded depth is 1097 m.
References
External links
Lepetidae
Gastropods described in 1776
Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller
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