Pupillaea aperta

Pupillaea aperta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Emarginullinae
Tribe: Fissurellideini
Genus: Pupillaea
Species: P. aperta
Binomial name
Pupillaea aperta
(G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Synonyms[1]

Fissurella aperta G.B. Sowerby, 1825

Pupillaea aperta, common name the mantled keyhole limpet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]

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Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ a b Pupillaea aperta (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225005 on 19 April 2010.