Fissurella pulchra
| Fissurella pulchra | |
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| Two shells of Fissurella pulchra (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Fissurellinae |
| Genus: | Fissurella |
| Species: | F. pulchra
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| Binomial name | |
| Fissurella pulchra Sowerby, 1834
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Fissurella pulchra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1][2][3]
Description
The size of the shell attains 70 mm.
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Distribution
This marine species occurs off Chile.
References
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Fissurella pulchra G.B. Sowerby I, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=570521 on 2012-12-31
- ^ McLean J.H. (1984) Systematics of Fissurella in the Peruvian and Magellanic faunal provinces (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 354: 1-70. (29 October 1984)
- ^ Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
External links
- To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
- To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
- To World Register of Marine Species
- "Fissurella pulchra". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.