Puncturella pseudanaloga

Taxobox
name = "Puncturella pseudanaloga"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Fissurelloidea
familia = Fissurellidae
genus = "Puncturella"
species = "P. pseudanaloga"
binomial = "Puncturella pseudanaloga"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1957
synonyms =

"Puncturella pseudanaloga" is a minute species of deepwater keyhole limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia's Macquarie Island.

Habitat

This keyhole limpet is found at depths of about 70 m.

hell description

The shell is ovate, tall conical, laterally compressed, white, with the strongly incurved apex at about three fourths of the length. Sculpture is fine and delicate, consisting of numerous primary and secondary radials, that become subequal towards the margin.

The shell height is up to 6.1 mm, width up to 7.7 mm, and length up to 11 mm.

References

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