''Puncturella cumingii'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella cumingii (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1445477 on 2020-09-24][Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.]
References
* Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Stahlschmidt P. (2015). ''New shelled molluscan species from the central Philippines'' I. Visaya. 4(3): 15–59.
* Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2020). ''The Fissurellidae from the Philippines with the description of 26 new species''. Visaya. suppl. 13: 1-131
External links
To World Register of Marine SpeciesAdams A. (1853 ["1851"]). A monograph of the recent species of Rimula, a genus of Mollusca, belonging to the family Fissurellidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 19: 226-227
Fissurellidae
Gastropods described in 1853
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