Fissurella rubropicta

Fissurella rubropicta
Top view of a shell of Fissurella rubropicta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Fissurella
Species: F. rubropicta
Binomial name
Fissurella rubropicta
Pilsbry, 1890

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

Description

The size of the shell reaches 30 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico and Costa Rica.

References

  1. WoRMS (2012). Fissurella rubropicta Pilsbry, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575124 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.
External identifiers for Fissurella rubropicta
ITIS 69644
WoRMS 575124
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