Diodora fontainiana

Diodora fontainiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Diodora
Species: D. fontainiana
Binomial name
Diodora fontainiana
(d'Orbigny, 1841)

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

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Peru.

References

  1. WoRMS (2012). Diodora fontainiana (d'Orbigny, 1841). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575108 on 2012-12-31
  2. Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.

External links

External identifiers for Diodora fontainiana
WoRMS 575108


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