Lamellaria latens | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Velutinoidea |
Family: | Velutinidae |
Genus: | Lamellaria |
Species: | L. latens
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Binomial name | |
Lamellaria latens (O. F. Müller, 1776)[1]
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Lamellaria latens is a species of small, slug-like sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Velutinidae. It is native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea where it feeds on colonial ascidians (sea squirts).[2]