Nacella kerguelenensis

Nacella kerguelenensis
Nacella kerguelenensis
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.

Distribution

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

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