Kerguelenella stewartiana

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Kerguelenella stewartiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Siphonariidae
Genus: Kerguelenella
Species: K. stewartiana
Binomial name
Kerguelenella stewartiana
(Powell, 1939)

Kerguelenella stewartiana, is a species of small, air-breathing sea snail, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets.

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to Stewart Island and The Snares and Bounty Islands of New Zealand.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is rather small, obliquely ovate-pyriform, the apex posterior, narrowly pointed, bent to the left and projecting beyond the margin. The shell is sculptured with flattened, flexuous broad radial ribs, most of which bifurcate towards the margin.

The external shell coloration is pale greenish-grey to olive externally, irregularly blotched with dark brown. Internally, it is dark reddish-brown, paler at the margin.

The shell length is up to 17 mm, width 12.5 mm, and height 7 mm.

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