Hemimarginula dentigera

Hemimarginula dentigera
Shells of Hemimarginula dentigera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Family:Fissurellidae
Subfamily:Hemitominae
Genus:Hemimarginula
Species: H. dentigera
Binomial name
Hemimarginula dentigera
(Heilprin, 1889)
Synonyms[1]
  • Emarginula dentigera Heilprin, 1889

Hemimarginula dentigera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1][2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the following locations:[1]

  • Aruba
  • Bonaire
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Curaçao
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • Venezuela

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bouchet, P. (2012). Hemimarginula dentigera. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585727 on 2012-12-31
  2. ↑ McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427.


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