{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Speciesbox | image = Fissurella costata 001.jpg | image_caption = Top view of a shell of ''Fissurella costata'' | taxon = Fissurella costata | authority = Lesson, 1831 | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Fissurella chilensis'' <small>Sowerby I, 1835</small> * ''Fissurella costata'' var. ''rubra'' <small>Ziegenhorn & Thiem, 1925</small> * ''Fissurella rudis'' <small>Deshayes, 1830</small> (<small>Invalid: junior secondary homonym of Patella rudis Röding, 1798</small>) }}

'''''Fissurella costata''''', common name : the '''costate keyhole limpet''', is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|570480 |''Fissurella costata'' Lesson, 1831 ||21 April 2011}}</ref>

==Description== The size of an adult shell varies between 25&nbsp;mm and 90&nbsp;mm. {{Expand section|date=April 2011}}

==Distribution== This species is present in the southeastern coast of Pacific Ocean off Peru and Chile. They live on the rocky intertidal substrate.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Olivares-Paz |first=Alberto |last2=Quinteiro |first2=Javier |last3=Rey-Méndez |first3=Manuel |date=December 2012 |title=Molecular phylogeny of the species from the subgenus Fissurella (Mollusca: Vetigastropoda) found on the Chilean coast |url=http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-19572011000300005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en |journal=Revista de biología marina y oceanografía |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=339–348 |doi=10.4067/S0718-19572011000300005 |issn=0718-1957|doi-access=free }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category|Fissurella costata}} * [http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS354.pdf McLean J.H. (1984) Systematics of Fissurella in the Peruvian and Magellanic faunal provinces (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 354: 1–70, p. 49. (29 October 1984)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702214757/https://nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS354.pdf |date=2 July 2017 }} * {{Gastropods.com|key=7|id=2637|title=''Fissurella (Fissurella) costata''|access-date=21 April 2011}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fissurella Costata}} Category:Fissurella Category:Gastropods described in 1831 Category:Molluscs of Chile Category:Molluscs of Peru Category:Taxa named by René Lesson

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