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Fissurella latimarginata

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Fissurella latimarginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Fissurelloidea
Family:
Fissurellidae
Subfamily:
Fissurellinae
Genus:
Fissurella
Species:
F. latimarginata
Binomial name
Fissurella latimarginata
Sowerby, 1835
Synonyms[1]
  • Fissurella bella Reeve, 1849
  • Fissurella biradiata Sowerby, 1835
  • Fissurella galericulum Reeve, 1850
  • Fissurella punctatissima Pilsbry, 1890

Fissurella latimarginata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 100 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Peru and Chile.

References

  1. ^ a b Fissurella latimarginata G.B. Sowerby I, 1835. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2011.
  • Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218
Fissurella latimarginata, view from beneath

External links

  • 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, p. 49. (29 October 1984)
  • "Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 21 April 2011.


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