Puncturella pseudanaloga
Puncturella pseudanaloga | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
Superfamily: | Fissurelloidea |
Family: | Fissurellidae |
Genus: | Puncturella |
Species: | P. pseudanaloga |
Binomial name | |
Puncturella pseudanaloga Powell, 1957 | |
Puncturella pseudanaloga is a minute species of deepwater keyhole limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Distribution
This species is endemic to Australia's Macquarie Island.
Habitat
This keyhole limpet is found at depths of about 70 m.
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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