Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis

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Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Patellogastropoda
Suborder: Nacellina
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Acmaeidae
Genus: Actinoleuca
Species: A. campbelli
Subspecies: A. campbelli bountyensis
Trinomial name
Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis
Powell, 1955

Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis is a subspecies of sea snail or true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acmaeidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This limpet is endemic to New Zealand's Bounty Islands.

[edit] Habitat

This subspecies is found from low tide to depths of about 90 m.

[edit] Description

The shell has the radials flatter, with linear interspaces, not finely corrugated, compared to the other Actinoleuca species.

Length is up to 7.7 mm, width up to 7 mm, and height up to 6 mm.

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