Puncturella spirigera

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

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

Taxonomy

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

Distribution

This species occurs in the Davis Sea.

References

1. Puncturella spirigera Thiele, 1912 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 19 April 2010.

• 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.

External links

• Thiele, J. (1912). Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. 13, Zoologie. 5(2): 185-285, pls 11-19
• Egorova, E. (1982). Biological results of the Soviet Antarctic expeditions, 7. Molluscs of the Davis Sea; Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas 26(34): 1-142
• Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3: 207-213