Patellogastropoda

True limpets
Temporal range:
Images of true limpets, shell and live individuals of three species
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Patellogastropoda
Lindberg, 1986
Superfamilies and families

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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 is deemed monophyletic based on phylogenetic analysis.