Eoacmaea profunda

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Eoacmaea profunda is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eoacmaeidae, one of the families of true limpets.{{WRMS species|456580|Eoacmaea profunda (Deshayes, 1863)||8 April 2010}}

Eoacmaea profunda is the type species in the genus Eoacmaea.

Description

The size of the shell attains 9.8 mm.

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Aldabra, the Mascarene Basin and Kenya.

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. J. conchyliol. 68: 21–74
Ruwa, R.K. (1984). Invertebrate faunal zonation on rocky shores around Mombasa, Kenya. Kenya Journal of Science and technology Series B 7(2): 41–45
Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 73(1): 79–99.

[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13068117 Deshayes, G. P., 1863 Catalogue des mollusques de l‛Ile de la Réunion (Bourbon). In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion (Bourbon), p. 144 p, 14 pls]