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Definition of Fissurella
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Fissurellidae: keyhole limpets.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Family Fissurellidae, Fissurellidae
Member holonyms: Diodora Apertura, Fissurella Apertura, Keyhole Limpet
Definition of Fissurella
1. n. A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.
Definition of Fissurella
1. Noun. (zoology) Any of the genus ''Fissurella'' of marine gastropod mollusks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Fissurella
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissurella
Literary usage of Fissurella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"fissurella alternata Say, Dall and Simpson, US Fish Com., Bull., vol. 20 for
1900, pt. ... fissurella alternata Say, Brown and Pilsbry, Acad. Nat . Sci. ..."
2. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1913)
"... fissurella Hall, 1843, Geol. NY, pt. iv, p. I80, figs. 9. 10 and p. 222, fig.
... fissurella Grabau and Shimer, 1910, N. Am. Index Fossils, vol. 1i, p. ..."
3. Guide to the Systematic Distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1857)
"... which is at length destroyed by the extension backwards of the anal perforation.
Fig. 89.—Teeth of fissurella. ..."
4. The animal creation by Thomas Rymer Jones (1865)
"... for the free admission of water to the branchial chamber. The mouth is a short
proboscis. The Key-hole Limpets (fissurella) very much re- FlG. 225. ..."
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