Buchanania onchidioides

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]

Buchanania onchidioides
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Emarginulinae
Genus: Buchanania
Species:
B. onchidioides
Binomial name
Buchanania onchidioides
Lesson, 1830

Description

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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

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This marine species occurs off Argentina and Chile.

References

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  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
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