Radiacmea

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Radiacmea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Patellogastropoda
Family: Acmaeidae
Genus: Radiacmea
Iredale, 1915
Species

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Radiacmea is a southern genus of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acmaeidae, the true limpets.

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[edit] Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand.

[edit] Description

Radiacmea shells are solid, opaque, porcellaneous, and radially ribbed. The radula is distinctive; the teeth are short and blunt, the centrals are in juxtaposition, and in advance of the laterals which are nearly of equal size and in two pairs, the outer pair being in advance of the inner.

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