Emarginula

Taxobox
name = "Emarginula"


image_caption = "Emarginula striatula"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Fissurelloidea
familia = Fissurellidae
genus = "Emarginula"
genus_authority = Lamarck, 1801
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Emarginula" is a genus of keyhole limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fissurellidae.

Distribution

This genus is found in most seas worldwide.

Description

Species in this genus have a shell with a long narrow anterior slit at the marginal termination of a distinct fasciole extending from the apex.

pecies

* "Emarginula conica" Lamarck, 1801
* "Emarginula crassa" Sowerby, 1812
* "Emarginula dentigera" Heilprin, 1889 - toothed emarginula
* "Emarginula fissura"
* "Emarginula nordica" Perez Farfante, 1947 - northern emarginula
* "Emarginula phrixodes" Dall, 1927 - ruffled emarginula
* "Emarginula pumila" (A. Adams, 1852) - pygmy emarginula
* "Emarginula sicula" J. E. Gray, 1825 - dagger emarginula
* "Emarginula striatula" Quoy and Gaimard, 1834 - dagger emarginula
* "Emarginula tuberculosa" Libassi, 1859 - tuberculate emarginula
* "Emarginula velascoensis"

References

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* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1