Tugali stewartiana

Taxobox
name = "Tugali stewartiana"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
familia = Fissurellidae
genus = "Tugali"
species = "T. stewartiana"
binomial = "Tugali stewartiana"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1939

"Tugali stewartiana" is a species of medium-sized sea snail or limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the Family Fissurellidae, the keyhole and slit limpets.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is found around Stewart Island.

Habitat

This limpet lives at depths of from low tide to 65 m.

hell description

Compared with "Tugali elegans", this species is less tapered anteriorly, and has much coarser sculpture: the radials are fewer, broader and flatter and the concentric ridges also are fewer and stronger.

The maximum shell height is 10 mm, width 18 mm, and length 27 mm.

References

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