Fissurella

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Fissurella
Fissurella volcano
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Fissurellinae
Genus: Fissurella
Bruguière, 1789[1]
Type species
Patella nimbosa Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[2]
  • Balboaina Pérez Farfante, 1943
  • Fissurella (Cremides) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Fissurella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Fissurellinae of the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[2]

Description[edit]

The size of the body does not exceed or marginally exceeds that of the shell. The outer radular plate has four cusps. The propodium (= the anterior end of the foot) has no tentacles.

Ecology[edit]

Like all other fissurellids, Fissurella species are herbivores, using the radula to scrape up algae from the surface of rocks.

Water for respiration and excretion is drawn in under the edge of the shell and exits through the "keyhole" at the apex.

Species[edit]

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Fissurella [3]

Fissurella crassa
Fissurella latimarginata
Fissurella maxima
Fissurella radiosa tixierae, apical view
Fissurella rubropicta
Fissurella virescens

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database adds the following species to the list [5]

The following species are also mentioned by Schooner specimen shells. This list may contain synonyms.

Species brought into synonymy

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bruguière J. G. (1789). Ency. Méth. (Vers), 1, xiv.
  2. ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Fissurella Bruguière, 1789. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138013 on 2013-01-14
  3. ^ WoRMS : Fissurella
  4. ^ "Fissurella virescens Sowerby, 1835". Charles Darwin Foundation - Galapagos. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  5. ^ OBIS : Fissurella

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