Puncturella

Puncturella
Puncturella noachina shell
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Zeidorinae
Genus: Puncturella
R. T. Lowe, 1827
Type species
Patella noachina
Linnaeus, 1771
Synonyms
  • Cemoria Risso, 1826 [ex Leach MS]
  • Cranopsis A. Adams, 1860
  • Cremoria Gray, 1842 (incorrect subsequent spelling of Cemoria)
  • Puncturella (Cranopsis) Adams, 1860
  • Puncturella (Puncturella)
  • Puncturella (Rimulanax) Iredale, 1924 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Sipho T. Brown, 1827

Puncturella is a genus of minute deepwater keyhole limpets, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

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