Puncturella pelex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1][2]
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| Drawing of a shell of Puncturella pelex | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Zeidorinae |
| Genus: | Puncturella |
| Species: | P. pelex
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| Puncturella pelex Adams, 1860
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The epithet uses the Greek word for "helmet".
Description
editThe shell reaches a size of 6 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Japan and in the East China Sea.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella pelex (A. Adams, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1340228 on 2020-09-24
- ^ McLean J.H. & Geiger D.L. (1998). New genera and species having the Fissurisepta shell form, with a generic-level phylogenetic analysis (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 475: 1-32
- Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2020). The Fissurellidae from the Philippines with the description of 26 new species. Visaya. suppl. 13: 1-131
External links
edit- Adams A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 3, 5: 299-303 [April 1860]; 405-413
- Cunha T.J., Lemer S., Bouchet P., Kano Y. & Giribet G. (2019). Putting keyhole limpets on the map: phylogeny and biogeography of the globally distributed marine family Fissurellidae (Vetigastropoda, Mollusca). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 135: 249-269
- Encyclopedia of Life
- World Register of Marine Species
- "Cranopsis pelex". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.