Actinoleuca

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Actinoleuca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Order: Patellogastropoda Family: Acmaeidae Genus: Actinoleuca Oliver, 1926
Species
See text.

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

Contents 1 Distribution 2 Shell description 3 Species 4 References

[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Shell description

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

[edit] Species

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

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[edit] References

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