Nacella kerguelenensis
Appearance
Nacella kerguelenensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
Family: | Nacellidae |
Genus: | Nacella |
Species: | N. kerguelenensis
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Binomial name | |
Nacella kerguelenensis (Smith, 1877)
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Nacella kerguelenensis is a southern, cold-water species of limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, the true limpets.
Distribution
[edit]This true limpet is endemic to Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie, Heard, and McDonald islands, and France's Kerguélen Islands.
References
[edit]- Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Australian Government