Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Alternative combinations: Fissurella (Fissurella) nimbosa, Patella nimbosa
Belongs to Fissurella according to B. M. Landau et al. 2016
See also DeVries 2008 and Weisbord 1962
Sister taxa: Fissurella (Balboaina), Fissurella (Carcellesia), Fissurella (Clypidella), Fissurella (Cremides), Fissurella (Fissurella), Fissurella barbadensis, Fissurella behri, Fissurella bipunctata, Fissurella costaria, Fissurella cumingi, Fissurella fluviamariana, Fissurella gibba, Fissurella hydrebadensis, Fissurella labiata, Fissurella mississipiensis, Fissurella mus, Fissurella nodosa, Fissurella perrini, Fissurella rixfordi, Fissurella rosea, Fissurella scobinellata, Fissurella squamosa, Fissurella stantoni, Fissurella volcano
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution: found only at NMB Loc. 17512 - Quebrada Mare Abajo [Mare Fm] (Pliocene of Venezuela)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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