Contribution to the marine molluscan fauna of Kerguelen Islands, South Indian Ocean

The present work contributes to the knowledge of the mollusc fauna of the Kerguelen Is., on the basis of a collection of the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. This collection include 32 species of gastropods and 12 of bivalves collected in shallow waters of the Morbihan Bay, among the gastropods Margarites cf. porcellana and Perissodonta mirabilis are the most abundant, whereas among the bivalves the commonest species are Gaimardia trapesina and Laternula elliptica. Most of the species in this collection have a wide distribution, although some species are endemics of Kerguelen Is. or of the Kerguelen-Heard platform and other species are circumantartic.