Fissurella (Fissurella) geoglypha DeVries 2008 (snail)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Full reference: T. J. DeVries. 2008. Pliocene and Pleistocene Fissurella BruguiƩre, 1789 (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) from Southern Peru. The Veliger 50(2):129-148

Belongs to Fissurella (Fissurella) according to T. J. DeVries 2008

Sister taxa: Fissurella (Fissurella) aranea, Fissurella (Fissurella) concolor, Fissurella (Fissurella) crassa, Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata, Fissurella (Fissurella) limbata, Fissurella (Fissurella) maxima, Fissurella (Fissurella) mcleani, Fissurella (Fissurella) mexicana, Fissurella (Fissurella) perisca, Fissurella (Fissurella) peruviana, Fissurella (Fissurella) pulchra

Type specimen: UWBM 98474, a shell. Its type locality is Yauca roadcut, which is in a Tortonian coastal siliciclastic in the Pisco Formation of Peru.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Yauca roadcut

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