Puncturella longifissa, the long-slot puncturella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Zeidorinae |
| Genus: | Puncturella |
| Species: | P. longifissa
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| Binomial name | |
| Puncturella longifissa | |
William Healey Dall described the species in 1914; he found specimens off Bering Island in the Bering Sea.[1] It has also been found off Amchitka and Adak.[4]
References edit
- ^ a b Dall, Wm. H. (1914). "Notes on West American Emarginulinae". The Nautilus. 28 (5): 63.
- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2010). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Puncturella longifissa Dall, 1914". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
- ^ Vermeij, Geerat J.; Palmer, A. Richard; Lindberg, David R. (1990). "Range Limits and Dispersal of Mollusks in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska". The Veliger. 33 (4): 347–350.
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