Buchanania onchidioides

Buchanania onchidioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Buchanania
Species: B. onchidioides
Binomial name
Buchanania onchidioides
Lesson, 1830

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

Description

The shell has an elongate-ovate shape, with a large central tubercle and radiating striae on a smooth mantle. The shell grows to a size of 80 mm. The oral appendages are simple, subulate and retractile. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Argentina and Chile.

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Buchanania onchidioides Lesson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446163 on 2012-12-31
  2. McLean J.H. (1984) Shell reduction and loss in fissurellids: A review of genera and species in the Fissurellidea group. American Malacological Bulletin 2: 21-34.
  3. G.W. Tryon (1882) , Systematic Conchology vol. I p. 92
External identifiers for Buchanania onchidioides
Encyclopedia of Life 17715906
WoRMS 446163


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