Puncturella pseudanaloga

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Puncturella pseudanaloga
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobranchia
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Puncturella
Species: P. pseudanaloga
Binomial name
Puncturella pseudanaloga
Powell, 1957

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.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia's Macquarie Island.

[edit] Habitat

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

[edit] Shell 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.

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