Montfortista panhi

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Montfortista panhi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Montfortista
Species: M. panhi
Binomial name
Montfortista panhi
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms[1]
  • Emarginula arconatii Issel, 1869
  • Emarginula clathrata A. Adams & Reeve, 1850
  • Emarginula panhi Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
  • Emarginula tricarinata Pilsbry, 1890
  • Hemitoma (Montfortista) panhi (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
  • Patella tricarinata Born, I. von, 1778
  • Subemarginula panhi (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
  • Subemarginula panhiensis A. Adams, 1852

Montfortista panhi, common name the cancellate false limpet, 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 varies between 7 mm and 18 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the following locations:[1]

  • Red Sea
  • Indo-West Pacific.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Montfortista panhi (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585827 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.

External links

External identifiers for Montfortista panhi
WoRMS 585827


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