{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Puncturella expansa | image = | image_caption = | authority = (Dall, 1896) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Cranopsis expansa'' <small>(Dall, 1896)</small> * ''Rimula expansa'' <small>Dall, 1896</small> (original combination) | display_parents = 3 }}
'''''Puncturella expansa''''', common name the '''broad puncturella''', is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella expansa (Dall, 1896). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575133 on 2020-09-24</ref>
==Description== The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 40 mm. {{Expand section|date=January 2013}}
==Distribution== This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Baja California, Mexico to Panama; off the Galápagos Islands
==References== {{Reflist}} * Keen M. (1971) ''Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú'', ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
==External links== * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7733212 Dall W.H. (1896). Diagnoses of new species of mollusks from the west coast of America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 18 [1895]: 7-20.] * [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594467 World Register of Marine Species] * {{Gastropods.com|key=6|id=8366|title=''Cranopsis expansa''|access-date=16 January 2019}}
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Category:Puncturella Category:Gastropods described in 1896 Category:Taxa named by William Healey Dall
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