Montfortia

Montfortia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1][2]

Montfortia
A shell of Montfortia subemarginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Montfortia
Récluz, 1843
Type species
Emarginula australis
Quoy & Gaimard 1834
Synonyms[1]
  • Hemitoma (Montfortia) Récluz, 1843

Species

Species within the genus Montfortia include:[1]


The following species were brought into synonymy:[1]

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Montfortia Récluz, 1843. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527651 on 2012-12-31
  2. 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.


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