Actinoleuca

Taxobox
name = "Actinoleuca"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
ordo = Patellogastropoda
familia = Acmaeidae
genus = "Actinoleuca"
genus_authority = Oliver, 1926
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Actinoleuca" is a southern, cold-water genus of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acmaeidae, the true limpets.

Distribution

This genus is found around southern Australia, and New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands.

hell description

"Actinoleuca" shells are small, high-conical, porcellaneous, with straight sides and a subcentral apex.

pecies

* "Actinoleuca campbelli campbelli" (Filhol, 1880)
* "Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis" Powell, 1955
* "Actinoleuca campbelli macquariensis" (Hedley,1916)

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References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://www.mollusca.co.nz/speciesdetail.php?speciesid=69&species=Actinoleuca%20campbelli%20macquariensis NZ Mollusca]