Hemimarginula pumila
| Hemimarginula pumila | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Hemitominae |
| Genus: | Hemimarginula |
| Species: | H. pumila |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemimarginula pumila A. Adams, 1852 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hemimarginula pumila, the pygmy ermarginula, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1][2]
Description
The whitish to pale brownish conical shell is 6 to 13 mm long on a broadly oval base with an irregularly scalloped margin. The height is variable and the shell is usually much depressed. The apex is nearly centrally located. There is a narrow exhalant slit at the front margin. There are about twelve broad ribs that are minutely scabrous. These ribs are crossed by three buff, radiating bands. The radiating ribs are distant and corrugated. The interstices are deeply latticed and corrugated.
Distribution and habitat
This keyhole limpet is fairly common and can be found on or under rocks in tide pools, shallow water and in the intertidal to the sublittoral zone (from 2m to 27 m deep) along the coasts of Southeastern Florida south to Brazil. They can also be found living on mangrove oysters.[3]
This species occurs in the following locations:[1]
- Aruba
- Belize
- Bonaire
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Gulf of Mexico
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Lesser Antilles
- Mexico
- Panama
- Puerto Rico
References
- 1 2 Emarginula pumila A. Adams, 1852. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
- ↑ McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427.
- ↑ Coomans, HE, Biological aspects of mangrove molluscs in the West Indies, Malacologia, vol. 9 nr. 2, page 81, December 1969
- Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
External links
| External identifiers for Hemimarginula pumila | |
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| WoRMS | 585729 |
- To World Register of Marine Species
- Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species / by George W. Tryon, Jr. p. 268, Philadelphia :Published by the Author, Academy of Natural Sciences,1879-1898.