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Fissurella macrotrema

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Fissurella macrotrema
Top view of a shell of Fissurella macrotrema
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Fissurellinae
Genus: Fissurella
Species:
F. macrotrema
Binomial name
Fissurella macrotrema
Sowerby, 1834
Synonyms

Fissurella (Cremides) macrotrema Sowerby, 1834

Fissurella macrotrema is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1][2][3]

Description

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The size of the shell reaches 35 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off tropical West America; not off the Galapagos Islands.

References

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  1. ^ WoRMS (2012). Fissurella macrotrema G.B. Sowerby I, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575119 on 2012-12-31
  2. ^ Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
  3. ^ Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
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