WoRMS taxon details
Medusafissurella McLean & Kilburn, 1986
AphiaID: 536032
AphiaID: 536032
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Vetigastropoda (Subclass) > Fissurelloidea (Superfamily) > Fissurellidae (Family) > Fissurellinae (Subfamily) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Fissurella salebrosa Reeve, 1850 (type by original designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Fissurellinae Fleming, 1822 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
original description: McLean J.H. & Kilburn R.N. 1986. Propodial elaboration in Southern African and Indian Ocean Fissurellidae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia) with descriptions of two new genera and one new species. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 379: 1-12.
, available online at http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS379.pdf [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Medusafissurella chemnitzii (Sowerby, 1835) Species Medusafissurella dubia (Reeve, 1849) Species Medusafissurella melvilli (G. B. Sowerby III, 1882) Species Medusafissurella salebrosa (Reeve, 1850) Species Medusafissurella gallagheri Smythe, 1988 accepted as Medusafissurella melvilli (G. B. Sowerby III, 1882) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:536032 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Medusafissurella McLean & Kilburn, 1986. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536032 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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