''Pectinodonta'' is a

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of sea snails, the

true limpet The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade or as a taxonomic order. The clade Patellogastropoda ...

s, marine gastropod

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s in the

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Pectinodontidae Pectinodontidae is a family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea, the true limpets. Lottioidea Taxonomy This family was previously ranked as subfamily Pectinodontinae (also with Acmaeinae a ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Pectinodonta'' include: * '' Pectinodonta alis'' B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016 * '' Pectinodonta alpha'' B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016 * '' Pectinodonta alta'' Schepman, 1908 * '' Pectinodonta arcuata'' Dall, 1882 * '' Pectinodonta aupouria'' B. A. Marshall, 1985 * '' Pectinodonta aurora'' B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016 * '' Pectinodonta beta'' B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016 * '' Pectinodonta borealis'' Kaim, Hryniewic, C. Little & Nakrem, 2017 † * † '' Pectinodonta coniformis'' (Marwick, 1931) * '' Pectinodonta gamma'' B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016 * '' Pectinodonta gilbertvossi'' Olsson, 1971 * † '' Pectinodonta kapalae'' B. A. Marshall, 1985 * '' Pectinodonta komitica'' B. A. Marshall, 1985 * '' Pectinodonta marinovichi'' Marshall, 1998 * '' Pectinodonta maxima'' (Dautzenberg, 1925) * '' Pectinodonta mazuae'' S.-Q. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2018 * '' Pectinodonta morioria'' B. A. Marshall, 1985 * '' Pectinodonta obtusa'' (Thiele, 1925) * '' Pectinodonta orientalis'' Schepman, 1908 * † '' Pectinodonta palaeoxylodia'' Lindberg & Hedegaard, 1996 * '' Pectinodonta philippinarum'' B. A. Marshall, Puillandre, Lambourdière, Couloux & Samadi, 2016 * '' Pectinodonta rhyssa'' (Dall, 1925) * † '' Pectinodonta waitemata'' B. A. Marshall, 1985

References

* Marshall, B. A.; Puillandre, N.; Lambourdiere, J.; Couloux, A.; Samadi, S. (2016). Deep-sea wood-eating limpets of the genus Pectinodonta Dall, 1882 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Patellogastropoda: Pectinodontidae) from the tropical West Pacific. In: V. Héros et al. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 208: 23

External links

Dall, W. H. (1882). On certain limpets and chitons from the deep waters off the eastern coast of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 4: 400-414.

Marshall, B. A. (1985). Recent and Tertiary deep-sea limpets of the genus Pectinodonta Dall (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 12 (2): 273-282
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