Fissurella volcano | |
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A shell of Fissurella volcano | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
Superfamily: | Fissurelloidea |
Family: | Fissurellidae |
Genus: | Fissurella |
Species: | F. volcano |
Binomial name | |
Fissurella volcano Reeve, 1849 |
Fissurella volcano, common name the "volcano limpet" or "volcano keyhole limpet", is a species of small to medium-sized sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
This species occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean, where it is found in the intertidal zone on the underside of rocks. The distribution is California and Baja California.