Fissurella oriens

Fissurella oriens
	Three shells of Fissurella oriens oriens (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Fissurelloidea
Family:	Fissurellidae
Subfamily:	Fissurellinae
Genus:	Fissurella
Species:	F. oriens
Binomial name
	Fissurella oriens; G.B. Sowerby I, 1834
Synonyms
	Fissurella narpi N. Rojas y D. Jara, 2014; Fissurella alba Philippi, 1845; Fissurella arenicola Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885; Fissurella australis Philippi, 1845; Fissurella cheullina Ramirez-Boehme, 1974; Fissurella doellojuradoi Perez-Farfante, 1952; Fissurella flavida Philippi, 1857; Fissurella fulvescens G.B. Sowerby I, 1835; Fissurella hedeia Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885; Fissurella mexicana G.B. Sowerby I, 1835; Fissurella oblonga Ramirez-Boehme, 1974;

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

There are two subspecies known :

Fissurella oriens fulvescens G.B. Sowerby I, 1835 : found in the Pacific Ocean along Chile.
Fissurella oriens oriens G.B. Sowerby I, 1834 : the Rising Sun Keyhole Limpet; found along the Falkland Islands and Isla Chiloé, Chile

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 70 mm.

Pacific Ocean along Chile.

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