Biology:Fissurella virescens

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Fissurella virescens
Fissurella virescens 002.jpg
Top view of a shell of Fissurella virescens
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Fissurellinae
Genus: Fissurella
Species:
F. virescens
Binomial name
Fissurella virescens
Sowerby, 1835
Synonyms
  • Fissurella (Cremides) virescens Sowerby, 1835
  • Fissurella nigropunctata Sowerby, 1835
  • Megatebennus cokeri Dall, 1909

Fissurella virescens, also known as the green Panama keyhole limpet, 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 differs between 12 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the western Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California to Peru; but not off the Galápagos Islands.

References

  1. WoRMS (2012). Fissurella virescens G.B. Sowerby, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575126 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 links

Wikidata ☰ Q5455291 entry