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Puncturella expansa

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Puncturella expansa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Zeidorinae
Genus: Cranopsis
Species:
C. expansa
Binomial name
Cranopsis expansa
(Dall, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
  • Puncturella expansa (Dall, 1896)

Cranopsis expansa, common name the broad puncturella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 40 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Baja California, Mexico to Panama; off the Galápagos Islands

References

  1. ^ a b Rosenberg, G. (2012). Cranopsis expansa (Dall, 1896). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594467 on 2012-12-31
  • Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.


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