Scutus antipodes
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| Scutus antipodes | |
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| File:Elephant Snail (Scutus antipodes).jpg | |
| Elephant snail on a rock, side view | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| 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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| Synonyms[1] | |
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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]
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