''Puncturella decorata'' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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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 decorata Cowan & McLean, 1968. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588512 on 2020-09-24McLean J.H. & Geiger D.L. (1998). New genera and species having the Fissurisepta shell form, with a generic-level phylogenetic analysis (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 475: 1-32

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off

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, Canada.

References

External links

To Encyclopedia of Life

To ITIS

To World Register of Marine Species
Fissurellidae Gastropods described in 1968 {{Fissurellidae-stub