Simnia patula
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
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| image = Ovula patula (Sowerby).jpg
| image_caption = Xandarovula patula shell
| taxon = Simnia patula
| authority = (Pennant, 1777)Pennant T. (1777) British Zoology, vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea: i–viii, 1–154, Plates 1–93. London, [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN578030950|LOG_0010&physid=PHYS_0142 p. 117].
| synonyms = *Bulla patula Pennant, 1777
- Xandarovula patula (Pennant, 1777)
}}
Simnia patula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.{{WRMS species|224890|Xandarovula patula (Pennant, 1777)|||Gofas, S. (2010). Xandarovula patula (Pennant, 1777). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at
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- It is up to 0,8 cm in diameter and 2 cm in length.
- Small, shiny, oval-shell, convoluted.
- The elongated oval aperture is narrower than the rest of the shell, with flared lips.
- A shell that is white, yellow or pinkish.
- With brown stripes and spots mainly on the mantle, the body is yellow.
- The mantle has two flaps which, when the animal is active, cover the mantle.
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Category:Molluscs described in 1777
Category:Taxa named by Thomas Pennant
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