Fissurella volcano: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Lepetellida
- Family
- Fissurellidae
- Genus
- Fissurella
- Species
- Fissurella volcano
- Scientific Name
- Fissurella volcano
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Fissurella volcano
Fissurella volcano, commonly named the volcano limpet or volcano keyhole limpet, is a species of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. Like other members of the keyhole limpet family, the volcano limpet is not considered a "true" limpet.
Adults measure up to approximately 2.5-4.1 cm with a keyhole-shaped pore on the apex of its conical shell. They feed on benthic microalgae and potentially some macroalgal, or seaweed, fronds.
This species occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean, where it is found in the intertidal zone on the underside of rocks. The distribution is California and Baja California.
...Fissurella volcano in languages:
- English
- Volcano Keyhole Limpet
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Fissurella afra
- Fissurella alabastrites
- Fissurella angusta
- Fissurella asperella
- Fissurella barbadensis
- Fissurella barbouri
- Fissurella bravensis
- Fissurella bridgesii
- Fissurella clenchi
- Fissurella coarctata
- Fissurella costata
- Fissurella crassa
- Fissurella cumingi
- Fissurella cyathulum
- Fissurella decemcostata
- Fissurella deroyae
- Fissurella emmanuelae
- Fissurella fascicularis
- Fissurella fischeri
- Fissurella formosa
- Fissurella gaillardi
- Fissurella gemmata
- Fissurella latimarginata
- Fissurella limbata
- Fissurella longifissa
- Fissurella macrotrema
- Fissurella maxima
- Fissurella mesoatlantica
- Fissurella microtrema
- Fissurella morrisoni
- Fissurella mutabilis
- Fissurella natalensis
- Fissurella nigra
- Fissurella nigrocincta
- Fissurella nimbosa
- Fissurella nodosa
- Fissurella nubecula
- Fissurella obscura
- Fissurella oriens
- Fissurella peruviana
- Fissurella picta
- Fissurella pulchra
- Fissurella punctata
- Fissurella radiosa
- Fissurella rosea
- Fissurella rubropicta
- Fissurella salvatiana
- Fissurella schrammii
- Fissurella sibogae
- Fissurella spongiosa
- Fissurella subrostrata
- Fissurella verna
- Fissurella virescens
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