Montfortista excentrica explained

Montfortista excentrica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.^{[1] [2]}

Description

The size of the shell typically varies between six and eighteen millimetres.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific; off Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia.

References

• Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA

External links

• World Register of Marine Species

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Montfortista excentrica (Iredale, 1929). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585828 on 2012-12-31
2. McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427.