Puncturella

Puncturella
Puncturella noachina shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Zeidorinae
Genus: Puncturella
R. T. Lowe, 1827[1]
Type species
Patella noachina
Linnaeus, 1771
Synonyms[2]
  • Cemoria Risso, 1826 [ex Leach MS]
  • Cranopsis A. Adams, 1860
  • Cremoria Gray, 1842 (incorrect subsequent spelling of Cemoria)
  • Puncturella (Cranopsis) Adams, 1860
  • Puncturella (Puncturella)
  • Puncturella (Rimulanax) Iredale, 1924 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Sipho T. Brown, 1827

Puncturella is a genus of minute deepwater keyhole limpets, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[2]

  1. ^ Lowe R. T. (1827). Zool. Journ. 3(9): 77.
  2. ^ a b Gofas, S. (2011). Puncturella. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138015 on 2011-01-25