Tugali suteri is a species of small sea snail or limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the Family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Tugali suteri | |
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Shell of Tugali suteri suteri (speciimen at the Auckland War Memorial Museum) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Family: | Fissurellidae |
Genus: | Tugali |
Species: | T. suteri
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Binomial name | |
Tugali suteri (Thiele, 1916)
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Synonyms | |
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A subspecies of this limpet is Tugali suteri sutherlandi.
References
edit- Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
External links
edit- Arthur William Baden Powell (1979). New Zealand mollusca: marine, land, and freshwater shells. Collins. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.