Fissurella verna

Fissurella verna
Top view of the shell of Fissurella verna (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Fissurellinae
Genus: Fissurella
Species: F. verna
Binomial name
Fissurella verna
Gould, 1846
Synonyms
  • Emarginula verna Gould, 1846
  • Fissurella costata Sowerby, G.B. II, 1835
  • Fissurella (Fissurella) glaucopsis Reeve, L.A., 1849

Fissurella verna is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 51 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verdes.

References

  1. ↑ Fissurella verna Gould, 1846.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
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