Fissurella

Fissurella
Fissurella volcano
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Fissurellinae
Genus: Fissurella
Bruguière, 1789
Type species
Patella nimbosa Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Balboaina Pérez Farfante, 1943
  • Fissurella (Cremides) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Fissurella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Fissurellinae of the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.

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