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Puncturella

Puncturella
Puncturella Noachina (Sowerby).jpg
Puncturella noachina shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Emarginulinae
Genus: Puncturella
R. T. Lowe, 1827
Type species
Patella noachina Linnaeus, 1771
Synonyms
  • Cemoria Risso, 1826 [ex Leach MS]
  • Cremoria [Gray, 1842] (incorrect subsequent spelling of Cemoria)
  • Puncturella (Cranopsis) A. Adams, 1860
  • Puncturella (Puncturella)
  • Puncturella (Rimulanax) Iredale, 1924
  • Puncturella (Vacerrena) Iredale, 1958
  • Sipho T. Brown, 1827
  • Vacerra Iredale, 1924 (invalid: junior homonym of Vacerra Godman, 1900 [Lepidoptera]; Vacerrena is a replacement name)

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

Species in this genus include:


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