Vacerrena

Vacerrena is a small genus of sea snails in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

Vacerrena
Shell of Vacerrena nana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Fissurellidae
Subfamily:	Emarginulinae
Genus:	Vacerrena Iredale, 1958
Type species
Puncturella demissa Hedley, 1904
Synonyms
Puncturella (Vacerrena) Iredale, 1958 Vacerra Iredale, 1924 (junior homonym of Vacerra Godman, 1900 in Lepidoptera; Vacerrena was the replacement name)

Species

Species within the genus Vacerrena include:

• Vacerrena kesteveni (Hedley, 1900)
• Vacerrena nana (H. Adams, 1872)

References

• Iredale, T. (1958). Some molluscan name changes. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. 1956-57: 103-104.

External links

• Iredale, T. (1924). Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 49(3): 179-278.