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.

References

1. Fissurella coarctata King & Broderip, 1831.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.

• King, P.P. (1832) Description of the Cirrhipeda, Conchifera and Mollusca, in a collection formed by the officers of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle employed between the years 1826 and 1830 in surveying the southern coasts of South America, including the Straits of Magalhaens and the coast of Tierra del Fuego. Zoological Journal, 5: 332-349.

External links

• Gastropods.com: Fissurella (Fissurella) coarctata