Fissurella macrotrema | |
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Top view of a shell of Fissurella macrotrema | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Family: | Fissurellidae |
Subfamily: | Fissurellinae |
Genus: | Fissurella |
Species: | F. macrotrema
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Binomial name | |
Fissurella macrotrema
Sowerby, 1834
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Synonyms | |
Fissurella (Cremides) macrotrema Sowerby, 1834 |
Fissurella macrotrema is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets. [1] [2] [3]
The size of the shell reaches 35 mm.
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This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off tropical West America; not off the Galapagos Islands.