Rimula (gastropod)
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| Rimula | |
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| Shell of Rimula leptarcis (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Superfamily: | Fissurelloidea |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Rimulinae |
| Genus: | Rimula Lowe, 1852 |
| Type species | |
| † Emarginula blainvillii DeFrance, M.J.L., 1827 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Rimula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]
The name of the genus is a diminutive of "rime", a fissure.
The shell is thin and cancellated, with a perforation near the anterior margin.[2]
