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.

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

• 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