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]
Fissurella virescens | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Top view of a shell of Fissurella virescens | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Family: | Fissurellidae |
Subfamily: | Fissurellinae |
Genus: | Fissurella |
Species: | F. virescens
|
Binomial name | |
Fissurella virescens Sowerby, 1835
| |
Synonyms | |
Description
editThe size of the shell differs between 12 mm and 30 mm.
Distribution
editThis 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
editWikimedia 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.