Kerguelenella lateralis

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Kerguelenella lateralis
Kerguelenella lateralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily:	Siphonarioidea
Family:	Siphonariidae
Genus:	Kerguelenella
Species:	K. lateralis
Binomial name
Kerguelenella lateralis (Gould, 1846)
Synonyms
Siphonaria lateralis Gould, 1846 Siphonaria magellanica Philippi, R.A., 1855 Siphonaria redimiculum Reeve, L.A., 1856 Kerguelenia macquariensis Powell, 1939 Kerguelenia lateralis macquariensis (Powell, 1955 Kerguelenella lateralis Dell, 1964

Kerguelenella lateralis is a species of air-breathing sea snail or false limpet, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae, the false limpets.^[1]

Description[]

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 20 mm

Distribution[]

This species is distributed in the cold waters at the southern tip of South America and along South Georgia and along the southern tip of New Zealand

References[]

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

External links[]

• "Kerguelenella lateralis lateralis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 19 December 2010.