Stromboli beebei

Stromboli beebei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Stromboli
Species: S. beebei
Binomial name
Stromboli beebei
(Hertlein & Strong, 1951)

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

Description

The shell grows to a size of 40 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the southern Gulf of California, West Mexico

References

  1. WoRMS (2012). Stromboli beebei (Hertlein & Strong, 1951). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575135 on 2012-12-31
  2. Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
External identifiers for Stromboli beebei
WoRMS 575135


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