Fissurella coarctata

Fissurella coarctata
Top view and basal view of a shell of Fissurella coarctata (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. coarctata
Binomial name
Fissurella coarctata
King & Broderip, 1831
Synonyms

Fissurella taeniata Sowerby, G.B. II, 1867

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

Description

The size of the shell attains 35 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verdes and Senegal.

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