Tecticrater compressa

Taxobox
name = "Tecticrater compressa"
status =


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropod
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
infraclassis = Cocculiniformia
superfamilia = Lepetelloidea
familia = Lepetellidae
genus = "Tecticrater"
species = "T. compressa"
binomial = "Tecticrater compressa"
binomial_authority = (Suter, 1908)
synonyms = "Cocculina compressa" Suter, 1908

"Tecticrater compressa" is a species of small limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lepetellidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand including the Chatham Islands and the Chatham Rise.

Habitat

This limpet is found at depths of between 70 and 640 m.

hell description

The shell is small, greatly laterally compressed, the sides straight and parallel, and the ends slightly raised. The apex is submedian, the anterior and posterior slopes straight.

Shell height is up to 2.8 mm, length is up to 5 mm, and width is up to 2 mm.

References

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