Montfortia picta

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Montfortia picta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Montfortia
Species:
M. picta
Binomial name
Montfortia picta
(Dunker, 1860)
Synonyms [1]
  • Emarginula picta Dunker, 1860
  • Montfortula picta(Dunker, 1860)
  • Subemarginula cratitoidesYokoyama, 1926

Montfortia picta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Montfortia picta (Dunker, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1445469 on 2021-08-15
  2. McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427.