Puncturella exquisita | |
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Drawing with an apical view of a shell of Rimula exquisita | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Family: | Fissurellidae |
Subfamily: | Zeidorinae |
Genus: | Puncturella |
Species: | P. exquisita |
Binomial name | |
Puncturella exquisita Adams, 1853 | |
Synonyms | |
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Puncturella exquisita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. [1]
The size of the shell varies between 5 mm and 12 mm.
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This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean; also off the Philippines.
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Puncturella is a genus of minute deepwater keyhole limpets, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
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Puncturella billsae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
Zeidora bigelowi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
Cranopsis was previously a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
Rimula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
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Puncturella larva is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Puncturella multistriata or the many-ribbed puncturella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
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Puncturella pileolus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Agariste phrygium is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Emarginula undulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Puncturella fastigiata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Puncturella serraticostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Puncturella cumingii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Puncturella floris is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropoda mollusk in the family Fissurellidae.
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