Montfortista excentrica

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Montfortista excentrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Montfortista
Species: M. excentrica
Binomial name
Montfortista excentrica
(Iredale, 1929)
Synonyms[1]
  • Hemitoma (Montfortista) excentrica (Iredale, 1929)
  • Montfortia excentrica Iredale, 1929

Montfortista excentrica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1][2]

Description

The size of the shell typically varies between six and eighteen millimetres.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific; off Queensland, Northern Territory, West Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, P. (2012). Montfortista excentrica (Iredale, 1929). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585828 on 2012-12-31
  2. McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427.
  • Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA

External links

External identifiers for Montfortista excentrica
WoRMS 585828


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