Kerguelenella

Taxobox
name = "Kerguelenella"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Siphonariidae
genus = "Kerguelenella"
genus_authority = Powell, 1946
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Kerguelenella" is a genus of air-breathing sea snails, marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets.

Distribution

Species in this genus live in Patagonia, South Georgia, Kerguelen Islands, Macquarie Islands, and New Zealand's Stewart island and sub-Antarctic islands.

pecies

* "Kerguelenella innominata" (Iredale, 1915)
* "Kerguelenella lateralis" (Gould, 1846)
* "Kerguelenella stewartiana" (Powell, 1939)

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1