| Fissurella rubropicta | |
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| Top view of a shell of Fissurella rubropicta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Fissurellinae |
| Genus: | Fissurella |
| Species: | F. rubropicta |
| Binomial name | |
| Fissurella rubropicta Pilsbry, 1890 | |
Fissurella rubropicta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1][2]
Description
The size of the shell reaches 30 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico and Costa Rica.
References
- ↑ WoRMS (2012). Fissurella rubropicta Pilsbry, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575124 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.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fissurella rubropicta.
- To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
- To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
- To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
- To ITIS
- To World Register of Marine Species
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