Kerguelenella stewartiana

Taxobox
name = "Kerguelenella stewartiana"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Siphonariidae
genus = "Kerguelenella"
species = "K. stewartiana"
binomial = "Kerguelenella stewartiana"
binomial_authority = (Powell, 1939)
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"Kerguelenella stewartiana", is a species of small, air-breathing sea snail, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Stewart Island and The Snares and Bounty Islands of New Zealand.

hell description

The shell is rather small, obliquely ovate-, the apex posterior, narrowly pointed, bent to the left and projecting beyond the margin. The shell is sculptured with flattened, flexuous broad radial ribs, most of which bifurcate towards the margin.

The external shell coloration is pale greenish-grey to olive externally, irregularly blotched with dark brown. Internally, it is dark reddish-brown, paler at the margin. The shell length is up to 17 mm, width 12.5 mm, and height 7 mm.

References

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