Fissurella virescens

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Fissurella virescens
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Top view of a shell of Fissurella virescens
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Fissurellinae
Genus: Fissurella
Species:
F. virescens
Binomial name
Fissurella virescens
Sowerby, 1835
Synonyms
  • Fissurella (Cremides) virescens Sowerby, 1835
  • Fissurella nigropunctata Sowerby, 1835
  • Megatebennus cokeri Dall, 1909

Fissurella virescens, also known as the green Panama keyhole 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 differs between 12 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the western Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California to Peru; but not off the Galápagos Islands.

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References

  1. ↑ WoRMS (2012). Fissurella virescens G.B. Sowerby, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575126 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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