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Actinoleuca campbelli (H. Filhol, 1880)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  family Lottiidae - True Limpets »  genus Actinoleuca

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Actinoleuca campbelli

Author: Suter, H.

Actinoleuca campbelli

Author: Powell, A.W.B.

Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis

Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis

Author: Powell, A.W.B.

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Description

Shell small, roundish-oval, conical, subpellucid, finely ribbed, pink. The radiate riblets are very numerous and close together, about 40 reach from apex to margin and about 20 are interstitial; they are broadly convex, and crossed by numerous very fine concentric growth-lines. The colour is uniformly pink. Apex small, rounded, situated at about the anterior third of the length ; anterior slope straight, posterior slope very little convex. Inside pinkish-white, with white radiating rays, corresponding to the riblets ; central area pink ; margin crenulate, with a narrow pink border. Length, 5 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. ; height, 3 mm. (type). Length, 5,75 mm. ; breadth, 4,75 mm. ; height, 3 mm. (from Auckland Islands),
Suter, H. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca.

Distribution

New Zealand. Campbell Islands. The type was collected by the late Professor Filhol at the entrance to the north-east bay of Campbell Island ; Auckland Islands (Captain Bollons).
Suter, H. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca.
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 2

subspecies Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis A.W.B. Powell, 1955

Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis

subspecies Actinoleuca campbelli macquariensis (C. Hedley, 1916)

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Actinoleuca campbelli (Filhol, 1880)]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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