Species of gastropod
Fissurella virescens
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Top view of a shell of Fissurella virescens
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Mollusca
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Class:
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Gastropoda
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Subclass:
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Vetigastropoda
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Order:
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Lepetellida
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Family:
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Fissurellidae
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Subfamily:
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Fissurellinae
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Genus:
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Fissurella
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Species:
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F. virescens
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Binomial name
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Fissurella virescens
Sowerby, 1835
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Synonyms
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- Fissurella (Cremides) virescens Sowerby, 1835
- Fissurella nigropunctata Sowerby, 1835
- Megatebennus cokeri Dall, 1909
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Fissurella virescens, also known as the green Panama keyhole limpet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1][2][3]
- ^ WoRMS (2012). Fissurella virescens G.B. Sowerby, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575126 on 2012-12-31
- ^ Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
- ^ Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.