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Fissurella virescens G. B. Sowerby I 1835

Fissurella virescens

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Fissurella virescens, also known as 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 western Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California 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.

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Fissurella virescens: Brief Summary

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Fissurella virescens, also known as 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.

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