Macroschisma

Macroschisma, common name the narrow slot limpets, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.^[1][2]

Macroschisma
Macroschisma tasmaniae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Superfamily:	Fissurelloidea
Family:	Fissurellidae
Subfamily:	Fissurellinae
Genus:	Macroschisma Gray, 1835
Type species
Patella macroschisma Lightfoot, 1786
Synonyms[1]
Dolichoschisma Iredale, 1940 Forolepas Iredale, 1940 Macroschisma Agassiz, 1846 Machrochisma (misspelling) Macrochisma [sic] (misspelling)

Species

Species within the genus Macroschisma include:^[1]

• Macroschisma africanum Tomlin, 1932
• Macroschisma angustatum A. Adams, 1851
• Macroschisma bakiei Adams in Sowerby, 1862
• Macroschisma compressum Adams, 1850
• Macroschisma cuspidatum Adams, 1851
• Macroschisma dilatatum Adams, 1851
• Macroschisma elegans Preston, 1908
• Macroschisma hiatula Swainson, 1840
• Macroschisma madreporaria Hedley, 1907
• Macroschisma maximum Adams, 1851
• Macroschisma megatrema Adams, 1851
• Macroschisma munitum (Iredale, 1940)
• Macroschisma productum Adams, 1850
• Macroschisma rubrum Poppe, Tagaro & Stahlschmidt, 2015
• Macroschisma scutiformis G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869
• Macroschisma sinense Adams, 1855
• Macroschisma tasmaniae (Sowerby, 1862)

Macroschisma munitum

Species brought into synonymy

• Macroschisma africana (sic): synonym of Macroschisma africanum Tomlin, 1932
• Macroschisma canalifera (Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869): synonym of Lucapinella canalifera (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869)
• Macroschisma compressa (sic): synonym of Macroschisma compressum Adams, 1850
• Macroschisma cuspidata (sic): synonym of Macroschisma cuspidatum Adams, 1851
• Macroschisma dilatata (sic): synonym of Macroschisma dilatatum Adams, 1851
• Macroschisma magathura (sic): synonym of Macroschisma megatrema Adams, 1851
• Macroschisma maxima [sic] : synonym of Macroschisma maximum Adams, 1851
• Macroschisma munita (sic): synonym of Macroschisma munitum (Iredale, 1940)
• Macroschisma producta (sic): synonym of Macroschisma productum Adams, 1850
• Macroschisma sinensis [sic] : synonym of Macroschisma sinense Adams, 1855

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Macroschisma Gray, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205990 on 2012-12-31
2. Nomenclator Zoologicus

• Cotton, B. C., 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. W.L. Hawes, Adelaide.. 449 pp., 1 pl.
• Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 [31/Dec/1962]. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0
• Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J., 1962. Marine Molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne University Press and National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne. xv, 475
• Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA

External links

• Herbert D.G. (2015). An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca). Zootaxa. 4049(1): 1-98
• To GenBank
• To ITIS
• To World Register of Marine Species