Definition of Fissurellidae

1. Noun. Marine limpets.

Exact synonyms: Family Fissurellidae
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Class Gasteropoda, Class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda
Member holonyms: Fissurella, Genus Fissurella

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissurellidae

Fischer
Fischer's sign
Fischer's slime mushroom
Fischer's symptom
Fischer-Tropsch process
Fischer indole synthesis
Fischer projection formula
Fishbed
Fishberg concentration test
Fisher
Fisher's syndrome
Fishman-Lerner unit
Fisk
Fissipedia
Fissurella apertura
Fissurellidae
Fistulariidae
Fistulina
Fistulina hepatica
Fistulinaceae
Fitchew
Fitchie
Fitz
Fitz-
Fitz-Hugh and Curtis syndrome
Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald factor
Fitzhenry
Fitzhugh
Fitzwilliam

Literary usage of Fissurellidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"In the fissurellidae these two organs are quite symmetrical and of equal importance, but in the Pleurotomariidae and Haliotidae the ..."

2. A Monograph of the Molluscan Fauna of the Orthaulax Pugnax Zone of the by William Healey Dall (1915)
"SXM, one specimen from the same locality (Coll. Xo. 1035). Family fissurellidae. Genus FISSURELLA Bruguiere. ..."

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