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
Shell of Tugali suteri suteri (speciimen at the Auckland War Memorial Museum)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Tugali
Species:
T. suteri
Binomial name
Tugali suteri
(Thiele, 1916)
Synonyms
  • Emarginula (Tugali) suteri Thiele, 1916
  • Emarginula suteri Thiele, 1916 (original combination)
  • Tugali suteri suteri (Thiele, 1916)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Tugalia bascauda Hedley, 1917

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.