Meaning of cocculinellid | Babel Free

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Any gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.

Examples

“Papers on cocculinellid limpets and southern Australian Triphoridae were published, and papers on deep-sea pectinodontine, cocculinid, and pseudococculinid limpets are ready for submission.”

“In the absence of the highly diagnostic cocculinellid radula, Marshall (1983) referred C. coercita to Cocculinella because of the close similarity of the shell to those of C. minutissima and the New Zealand Recent species C. osteophila Marshall, 1983.”

“Cocculinellids have a narrowly elliptical aperture and subcentral apex.”

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