Cranopsis asturiana

Cranopsis asturiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Cranopsis
Species: C. asturiana
Binomial name
Cranopsis asturiana
(P. Fischer, 1882)
Synonyms[1]
  • Puncturella alta Locard, 1896
  • Puncturella craticia Watson, 1883
  • Rimula asturiana P. Fischer, 1882

Cranopsis asturiana, common name the hawk puncturella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters (off Spain), the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico; the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina, Georgia and Florida

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