Puncturella spirigera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]

Puncturella spirigera
Drawing of a shell of Puncturella spirigera (holotype)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Puncturella
Species:
P. spirigera
Binomial name
Puncturella spirigera
Thiele, 1912

Taxonomy

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Arnaud (1972) placed this species in synonymy of the widespread Puncturella conica (d'Orbigny, 1841) but this was rebutted by Dell (1990: 76).

Description

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Distribution

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This species occurs in the Davis Sea.

References

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  • Dell, R. K. (1990). Antarctic Mollusca with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington 27: 1–311
  • Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
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