Fissurella macrotrema

Fissurella macrotrema
Top view of a shell of Fissurella macrotrema
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Fissurella
Species: F. macrotrema
Binomial name
Fissurella macrotrema
G.B. Sowerby I, 1834
Synonyms

Fissurella (Cremides) macrotrema G.B. Sowerby I, 1834

Fissurella macrotrema is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1][2][3]

Description

The size of the shell reaches 35 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off tropical West America; not off the Galapagos Islands.

References

  1. WoRMS (2012). Fissurella macrotrema G.B. Sowerby I, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575119 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.
External identifiers for Fissurella macrotrema
WoRMS 575119
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fissurella macrotrema.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/15/2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.