Fissurella afra
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Genus: | Fissurella |
| Species: | F. afra
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| Binomial name | |
| Fissurella afra | |
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Fissurella de Praya | |
Fissurella afra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]
Description
[edit]Fissurella afra has on ovate-oblong and convex shell. The bull-fish within it is painted with brownish-violet rays and is white within. For the rest it is ovate, conicale, and obtuse at its summit; its fissure is ovate and contracted in the middle. Fissurella afra is also very finely striated radiately, and marked in the same way with radiating bands of a violaceous-brown on a yellowish-white ground. This species is often confused with the D. nimbosa, but its summit is more elevated and the aperture is carried more forward.[2]
Length 9, breath 7, alt. 5 ½ lines.
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Distribution
[edit]This particular species of mollusc is native to the Islands of the Archipelago or Capo Verde, in particular that of St. Iago.[3]
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References
[edit]- ^ Fissurella afra Quoy & Gaimard, 1834. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
- ^ George W. Tryon (October 2009). Manual of Conchology; Structural and Systematic. BiblioBazaar. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-115-31901-0.
- ^ Voyage de l'Astrolabe Zool.. Vol. 3, p. 336