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Fissurella nimbosa

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Taxonomy
Patella nimbosa was named by Linnaeus (1758) [DISTRIBUTION: Recent; circum-Caribbean.]. It is extant. It is the type species of Fissurella, Fissurella (Fissurella).

It was recombined as Fissurella (Fissurella) nimbosa by Weisbord (1962) and DeVries (2008); it was recombined as Fissurella nimbosa by Lamarck (1822) and Landau et al. (2016).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
F. costata, F. glarea, F. macrotrema, F. mediavia, F. migeriensis, F. mississippiensis, F. arguta

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Patella nimbosa Linnaeus p. 785
1822Fissurella nimbosa Lamarck p. 10
1962Fissurella (Fissurella) nimbosa Weisbord p. 60
2008Fissurella (Fissurella) nimbosa DeVries p. 130
2016Fissurella nimbosa Landau et al. p. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassVetigastropoda(Salvini-Plawen 1980)
orderLepetellidaMoskalev 1971
superfamilyFissurelloidea(Fleming 1822)
familyFissurellidaeFleming 1822
subfamilyFissurellinaeFleming 1822
genusFissurellaBruguière 1789
speciesnimbosa(Linnaeus 1758)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fissurella nimbosa Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available