Biology:Montfortista excentrica
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Zeidorinae |
| Genus: | Montfortista |
| Species: | M. excentrica
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| Binomial name | |
| Montfortista excentrica (Iredale, 1929)
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Montfortista excentrica 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 typically varies between six and eighteen millimetres.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific; off Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, P. (2012). Montfortista excentrica (Iredale, 1929). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585828 on 2012-12-31
- ↑ McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427.
- Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA
External links
- To World Register of Marine Species
- "Hemitoma (Montfortista) excentrica" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/4/Shell_6714.shtml.
Wikidata ☰ Q6905589 entry
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