''Puncturella cumingii'' is a
species
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of
sea snail, a
marine gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the
family
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Fissurellidae
Fissurellidae, common name the keyhole limpets and slit limpets, is a taxonomic family of limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda.Rosenberg, G. (2012). Fissurellidae. Accessed through: World Register of Mari ...
, 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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