Fissurella macrotrema

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]

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

Fissurella (Cremides) macrotrema Sowerby, 1834

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.
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