Nacella kerguelenensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Nacelloidea |
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.
This true limpet is endemic to Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie, Heard, and McDonald islands, and France's Kerguélen Islands.