Puncturella larva

Puncturella larva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Zeidorinae
Genus: Puncturella
Species:
P. larva
Binomial name
Puncturella larva
(Dall, 1927)
Synonyms
  • Cranopsis larva (Dall, 1927)
  • Emarginula (Rimula) larva Dall, 1927 (basionym)
  • Emarginula (Rimula) larva Dall, 1927 (original combination)

Puncturella larva is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

Taxonomy

The species was originally described by the American malacologist William Healey Dall in 1927 as Emarginula (Rimula) larva, in his account of small shells dredged off the southeastern United States by the fisheries steamer Albatross. It was later transferred to the genus Puncturella. The genus Cranopsis, under which the species has also been listed (as Cranopsis larva), was synonymised with Puncturella by Cunha and colleagues in 2019.

Description

The size of the shell reaches 3 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Georgia, USA.

References

  1. ↑ Dall, W. H. 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 70(2667): 1-134
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella larva (Dall, 1927). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1340221 on 2020-09-24
  3. ↑ Dall, W. H. (1927). "Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 70(2667): 1–134.
  4. ↑ Cunha, T. J.; Lemer, S.; Bouchet, P.; Kano, Y.; Giribet, G. (2019). "Putting keyhole limpets on the map: phylogeny and biogeography of the globally distributed marine family Fissurellidae (Vetigastropoda, Mollusca)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 135: 249–269. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.02.008