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Fissurella (Fissurella) Bruguière 1789 (keyhole limpet)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Parent taxon: Fissurella according to T. J. DeVries 2008

See also Knight et al. 1960, Perrilliat 1972 and Weisbord 1962

Sister taxa: Fissurella (Balboaina), Fissurella (Carcellesia), Fissurella (Clypidella), Fissurella (Cremides), Fissurella barbadensis, Fissurella behri, Fissurella bipunctata, Fissurella costaria, Fissurella cumingi, Fissurella fluviamariana, Fissurella gibba, Fissurella hydrebadensis, Fissurella labiata, Fissurella mississipiensis, Fissurella mus, Fissurella nimbosa, Fissurella nodosa, Fissurella perrini, Fissurella rixfordi, Fissurella rosea, Fissurella scobinellata, Fissurella squamosa, Fissurella stantoni, Fissurella volcano

Subtaxa: Fissurella (Fissurella) aranea Fissurella (Fissurella) concolor Fissurella (Fissurella) crassa Fissurella (Fissurella) geoglypha Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata Fissurella (Fissurella) limbata Fissurella (Fissurella) maxima Fissurella (Fissurella) mcleani Fissurella (Fissurella) mexicana Fissurella (Fissurella) perisca Fissurella (Fissurella) peruviana Fissurella (Fissurella) pulchra

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Type: Patella nimbosa

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Chile (4 collections), Peru (2)

• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Peru (7)

• Neogene of Chile (1)

• Miocene of Peru (1)

Total: 18 collections including 28 occurrences

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