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Taxonomy
Family:
LEPETELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (Order)
> Lepetelloidea (Superfamily)
> Lepetellidae (Family)
> Lepetella (Genus)
> clypidellaeformis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Tectisumen Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Cocculina clypidellaeformis Suter, 1908
=Tectisumen clypidellaeformis (Suter, 1908)
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Taxonomy
Family:
LEPETELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (Order)
> Lepetelloidea (Superfamily)
> Lepetellidae (Family)
> Lepetella (Genus)
> clypidellaeformis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Tectisumen Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Cocculina clypidellaeformis Suter, 1908
=Tectisumen clypidellaeformis (Suter, 1908)
Details: Lepetella clypidellaeformis (Suter, 1908)
Size/Grows to:
Length 3mm, Width 2.5mm, Height 2mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands and North Cape, 130-180 metres. Off Cape Palliser, 90-360 metres. Off Otago and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFMAnE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic, Found attached to the inside wall of old polychaete worm tubes
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.80)
  • Suter, H. 1908 Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of New Zealand, with descriptions of new species, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 8 (p.27) Original Description

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Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil