Scutus antipodes | |
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Elephant Snail on a Rock Side View | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Family: | Fissurellidae |
Genus: | Scutus |
Species: | S. antipodes
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Binomial name | |
Scutus antipodes Montfort, 1817
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Scutus antipodes, also known as the elephant snail[2] is a large species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1] S. antipodes is endemic to the waters off eastern Australia and Tasmania.[3]