Fissurella microtrema

Fissurella microtrema
Top view and basal view of a shell of Fissurella microtrema (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Fissurellidae
Subfamily:	Fissurellinae
Genus:	Fissurella
Species:	F. microtrema
Binomial name
Fissurella microtrema Sowerby, 1835

Fissurella microtrema, common name the rugose slit limpet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Description

The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 27 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Southern Baja California, Mexico, to Peru.

References

1. WoRMS (2012). Fissurella microtrema G.B. Sowerby, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575120 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

External links

• Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
• USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
• ITIS
• World Register of Marine Species
• "Fissurella (Cremides) microtrema". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.