Fissurella virescens | |
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Top view of a shell of Fissurella virescens | |
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. virescens
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Binomial name | |
Fissurella virescens
Sowerby, 1835
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Synonyms | |
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]
The size of the shell differs between 12 mm and 30 mm.
This species occurs in the western Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California to Peru; but not off the Galápagos Islands.