Cadulus teliger

Taxobox
name = "Cadulus teliger"


status =
trend =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Scaphopoda
ordo = Dentaliida
familia = Gadilidae
genus = "Cadulus"
species = "C. teliger"
binomial = "Cadulus teliger"
binomial_authority = Finlay, 1927

"Cadulus teliger" is a tusk shell of the family Gadilidae, endemic to New Zealand waters. It is found from the Three Kings Islands to the Chatham Islands, at depths of between 15 and 360 m, and off the Auckland Islands at about 170 m.

The shell is small and smooth, slender and lightly curved, mainly of uniform thickness, and only slightly constricted at the aperture. The apex is distinctive in that there is one raised triangular process on the convex side of the apical orifice.

Length is up to 5.1 mm, and width up to 0.7 mm.

References

* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1