Fissurella

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Fissurella
Fissurella volcano.jpg
Fissurella volcano
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Fissurellinae
Genus: Fissurella
Bruguière, 1789 [1]
Type species
Patella nimbosaLinnaeus, 1758
Synonyms [2]
  • BalboainaPérez Farfante, 1943
  • Fissurella (Cremides)H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Fissurella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Fissurellinae of the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. [2]

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Description

The size of the body does not exceed or marginally exceeds that of the shell. The outer radular plate has four cusps. The propodium (= the anterior end of the foot) has no tentacles.

Ecology

Like all other fissurellids, Fissurella species are herbivores, using the radula to scrape up algae from the surface of rocks.

Water for respiration and excretion is drawn in under the edge of the shell and exits through the "keyhole" at the apex.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Fissurella [3]

Fissurella crassa Fissurella crassa 002.jpg
Fissurella crassa
Fissurella latimarginata Fissurella latimarginata 002.jpg
Fissurella latimarginata
Fissurella maxima Fissurella maxima 002.jpg
Fissurella maxima
Fissurella radiosa tixierae, apical view Fissurella radiosa tixierae 003.jpg
Fissurella radiosa tixierae, apical view
Fissurella rubropicta Fissurella rubropicta 002.jpg
Fissurella rubropicta
Fissurella virescens Fissurella virescens 002.jpg
Fissurella virescens

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database adds the following species to the list [5]

The following species are also mentioned by Schooner specimen shells. This list may contain synonyms.

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Bruguière J. G. (1789). Ency. Méth. (Vers), 1, xiv.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Fissurella Bruguière, 1789. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138013 on 2013-01-14
  3. WoRMS : Fissurella
  4. "Fissurella virescens Sowerby, 1835". Charles Darwin Foundation - Galapagos. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  5. OBIS : Fissurella