Fissurella virescens

Fissurella virescens
Top view of a shell of Fissurella virescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Fissurella
Species: F. virescens
Binomial name
Fissurella virescens
G.B. Sowerby I, 1835
Synonyms
  • Fissurella (Cremides) virescens Sowerby, G.B. I, 1835
  • Fissurella nigropunctata Sowerby, G.B. I, 1835
  • Megatebennus cokeri Dall, W.H., 1909

Fissurella virescens, common name 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

The size of the shell differs between 12 mm and 30 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California, West Mexico to Peru; but not off the Galápagos Islands.

References

  1. 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
  2. Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
  3. Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
External identifiers for Fissurella virescens
NCBI 315755
WoRMS 575126


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