Montfortista is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[2][3]
| Montfortista | |
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| Shell of Montfortista panhi (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Superfamily: | Fissurelloidea |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Zeidorinae |
| Genus: | Montfortista Iredale, 1929[1] |
| Type species | |
| Montfortia excentrica Iredale, 1929
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Species
editSpecies within the genus Montfortista include:[2]
- Montfortista excentrica (Iredale, 1929)
- Montfortista kirana (Habe, 1963)
- Montfortista oldhamiana ((G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869)
- Montfortista panhi (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
References
edit- ^ Iredale, Tom (1929-06-29). "Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 9 (3): 269. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b c Bouchet, P. (2012). Montfortista Iredale, 1929. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585824 on 2012-12-31
- ^ 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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