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Puncturella pseudanaloga A. W. B. Powell, 1957

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Lepetellida »  family Fissurellidae - Keyhole Limpets »  genus Puncturella

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Puncturella pseudanaloga

Author: Powell, A.W.B.

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Description

Shell ovate, tall conical, laterally compressed, white, with the strongly incurved apex at about three fourths of the length. Sculpture fine and delicate, consisting of numerous primary and secondary radials, that become subequal towards the margin. Fissure long and narrow; septum strongly convex, funnel-shaped. Height 6.1 mm., width 7.7 mm., length 11.0 mm.
Powell, A.W.B., 1979. The New Zealand Mollusca: Marine Land and Freshwater Shells.

Distribution

New Zealand. Macquarie Island, off Lusitania Bay, 69 metres .
Powell, A.W.B., 1979. The New Zealand Mollusca: Marine Land and Freshwater Shells.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Puncturella pseudanaloga Powell, 1957]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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