Nacella kerguelenensis

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Nacella kerguelenensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Patellogastropoda
Family: Nacellidae
Genus: Nacella
Species: N. kerguelenensis
Binomial name
Nacella kerguelenensis
(Smith, 1877)

Nacella kerguelenensis is a southern, cold-water species of limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, the true limpets.

[edit] Distribution

This true limpet is endemic to Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie, Heard, and McDonald islands, and France's Kerguélen Islands.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is large, very thin, smooth and noticeably narrowed in front. The shell coloration is dark bronzy-brown, both externally and internally.

The maximum shell length is 80 mm, width 65 mm, and height 33 mm.

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