Rimula | |
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Shell of Rimula leptarcis (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Superfamily: | Fissurelloidea |
Family: | Fissurellidae |
Subfamily: | Rimulinae |
Genus: | Rimula Lowe, 1852 |
Type species | |
† Emarginula blainvillii DeFrance, M.J.L., 1827 | |
Synonyms | |
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Rimula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. [1]
The name of the genus is a diminutive of "rime", a fissure.
The shell is thin and cancellated, with a perforation near the anterior margin. [2]
Species within the genus Rimula include:
Fissurellidae, common name the keyhole limpets and slit limpets, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda.
Emarginula is a genus of small keyhole limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fissurellidae.
Clanculus is a genus of sea snail, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Scissurella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Scissurellidae, the small slit snails.
Eucyclidae is a family of gastropods in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.
Cantharidus, common name the kelp shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Diodora is a genus of small to medium-sized keyhole limpet in the family Fissurellidae.
Puncturella is a genus of minute deepwater keyhole limpets, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Fissurella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Fissurellinae of the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
Drillia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Daphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Seguenzia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Seguenziidae.
Cranopsis was previously a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
Subcancilla is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Isarinae of the family Mitridae.
Euchelus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chilodontaidae.
Stomatella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails and their allies.
Fossarus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Planaxidae.
Lacuna is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.
The subfamily Emarginulinae, common name keyhole limpets and slit limpets, is a taxonomic subfamily of limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Emarginella is a genus of small keyhole limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fissurellidae.