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