| Fissurella limbata | |
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| Shell of Fissurella limbata (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Gastropoda | 
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda | 
| Order: | Lepetellida | 
| Family: | Fissurellidae | 
| Subfamily: | Fissurellinae | 
| Genus: | Fissurella | 
| Species: | F. limbata  | 
| Binomial name | |
| Fissurella limbata Sowerby I, 1835  | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Fissurella limbata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1][2][3]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Pacific from Peru to the Strait of Magelhaen.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 33 mm and 70 mm.
References
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Fissurella limbata G.B. Sowerby I, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=570515 on 2012-12-31
 - ↑ "McLean J.H. (1984) Systematics of Fissurella in the Peruvian and Magellanic faunal provinces (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 354: 1-70. (29 October 1984)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
 - ↑ Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
 
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fissurella limbata.
- Sowerby, G. B., I; Sowerby, G. B., II. (1832-1841). The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London, privately published
 - McLean J.H. (1984) Systematics of Fissurella in the Peruvian and Magellanic faunal provinces (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 354: 1-70 Archived 2017-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
 - Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218
 - To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
 - To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
 - To World Register of Marine Species
 - "Fissurella (Fissurella) limbata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
 
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