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Noun1.Fissurellidae - marine limpets
mollusk family - a family of mollusks
class Gasteropoda, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda - snails and slugs and their relatives
Fissurella, genus Fissurella - type genus of the family Fissurellidae: keyhole limpets
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Columbellidae was the most representative family in terms of species number (6), followed by Pyramidellidae (4), Fissurellidae (3), and Muricidae (3).
Teratologic cases on Fissurellidae have not been particularly well documented, and only two previous cases came to our attention, both on Fissurella (Carpenter, 1857; Mienis, 2002), but neither of them from the South Pacific Ocean.
Gastropods of family Cerithiidae are the most abundant (840 shells, 41% of the recorded gastropods) while families Fissurellidae, Patellidae, Naticidae, Golmbellidae, Fasciolariidae and Pyramideloidae are represented by less than ten shells for each (Table I, Fig.
The Emarginulinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique.
zebra beds in Cubagua Island, Venezuela Taxqn Especie Mollusca, Gastropoda Fissurellidae Diodora cayenensis Diodora variegata Trochidae Calliostoma juvenum Calliostoma pulchrum Tegula excavata Tegula lividumaculata Turbinidae Astraea coelata Turbo castanea Nassariidae Nassarius consensus Nassarius vibex Calyptraeidae Crucibulum auricula Muricidae Chicoreus brevifrons Murex messorius Murex sp.
Swainson, 1840 1840 Acamaeidae Forbes, Acmaea antillarum (Sowerby, 1831) 1850 Fissurellidae Fleming, Fissurella nodosa (Born, 1778) 1822 Tabla 6.
Spermatozoon structure of some North American prosobranchs from the families Lottiidae (Patellogastropoda) and Fissurellidae (Archaeogastropoda).