Fissurella perrini Arnold 1908 (snail)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Full reference: R. Arnold. 1908. Descriptions of new Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils from the Santa Cruz Mountains, California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 34(1617):345-389

Belongs to Fissurella according to R. Arnold 1908

Sister taxa: Fissurella (Balboaina), Fissurella (Carcellesia), Fissurella (Clypidella), Fissurella (Cremides), Fissurella (Fissurella), Fissurella barbadensis, Fissurella behri, Fissurella bipunctata, Fissurella costaria, Fissurella cumingi, Fissurella fluviamariana, Fissurella gibba, Fissurella labiata, Fissurella mississipiensis, Fissurella mus, Fissurella nimbosa, Fissurella nodosa, Fissurella rixfordi, Fissurella rosea, Fissurella scobinellata, Fissurella squamosa, Fissurella stantoni, Fissurella volcano

Type specimen: USNM 165434, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Fissurella perrini in the database

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