Fissurella virescens
| Fissurella virescens | |
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| Top view of a shell of Fissurella virescens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Fissurellinae |
| Genus: | Fissurella |
| Species: | F. virescens
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| Binomial name | |
| Fissurella virescens Sowerby, 1835
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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
[edit]The size of the shell differs between 12 mm and 30 mm.
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the western Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California to Peru; but not off the Galápagos Islands.
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
- ^ Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fissurella virescens.
- Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
- GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
- USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
- World Register of Marine Species
- "Fissurella (Cremides) virescens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.