Fissurella microtrema

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Fissurella microtrema
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Top view and basal view of a shell of Fissurella microtrema (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Domain: Eukaryota
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]

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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.

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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


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