Fissurella angusta
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Shells of Fissurella angusta (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
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(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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Species: | F. angusta
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Fissurella angusta (Gmelin, 1791)
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Fissurella angusta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]
Description
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Distribution
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, off the Lesser Antilles and Hispaniola.
References
- ^ Fissurella angusta (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
- Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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