Fissurisepta festiva

Taxobox
name = "Fissurisepta festiva"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Fissurelloidea
familia = Fissurellidae
genus = "Fissurisepta"
species = "F. festiva"
binomial = "Fissurisepta festiva"
binomial_authority = Crozier, 1966
synonyms =

"Fissurisepta festiva" is a species of keyhole limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fissurellidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, north of Three Kings Islands.

Habitat

This keyhole limpet is found at depths of about 800 m.

hell description

The shell is small, delicate, smooth, laterally compressed, very tall, with straight tapered sides. The perforation is apical, oval, with irregular sides. The internal septum is nearly vertical, and running two-thirds of the length of the shell.

Coloration is white.

The shell height is up to 5.3 mm, width up to 3.2 mm, and length up to 5.1 mm.

References

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