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Lucapinella crenifera (G. B. Sowerby, 1835)

concha, Shell

Length: 20 mm; width: 11.5 mm; height: 5 mm.

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), The color pattern is of reddish or gray rays on a white ground.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Lepetellida

Superfamily
Fissurelloidea

Family
Fissurellidae

Genus
Lucapinella

Species
crenifera

Taxon category: Accepted

AMNH: 139480, 163293, LACN: 66-125, 147849, AHF 81-33, AHF 170-34, CAS: loc. no 27221 (previously misidentified as Lucapinella callomarginata (Dall, 1871)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: From Peru, Salinas-Ecuador including Galapagos islands.

References

  • Dall, W.H. (1871) Descriptions of sixty new forms of mollusks from the west coast of North America and the North Pacific Ocean, with notes on others already described. American Journal of Conchology 7(2): 93-160, pls. 13-16.
  • Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.

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