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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
FISSURELLIDAE: EMARGINULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (Order)
> Fissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Fissurellidae (Family)
> Emarginulinae (Subfamily)
> Tugali (Genus)
> suteri (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Emarginula (Tugali) Gray, 1843
=Subemarginula (Tugalia) Gray, 1843
=Tugalia Gray, 1857
Synonymised Names:
=Emarginula (Tugali) suteri Thiele, 1917
=Emarginula suteri Thiele, 1917
=Tugali suteri suteri (Thiele, 1917) accepted, alternate representation
=Tugalia bascauda Hedley, 1917
Images: Tugali suteri (Thiele, 1917)
In beach drift, Cape Maria van Diemen, Far North, NZ. 14mm
Collected in 19 metres, Leigh, south of marine reserve, Auckland, NZ (MA116871). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
FISSURELLIDAE: EMARGINULINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Lepetelllida (Order)
> Fissurelloidea (Superfamily)
> Fissurellidae (Family)
> Emarginulinae (Subfamily)
> Tugali (Genus)
> suteri (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Emarginula (Tugali) Gray, 1843
=Subemarginula (Tugalia) Gray, 1843
=Tugalia Gray, 1857
Synonymised Names:
=Emarginula (Tugali) suteri Thiele, 1917
=Emarginula suteri Thiele, 1917
=Tugali suteri suteri (Thiele, 1917) accepted, alternate representation
=Tugalia bascauda Hedley, 1917
Details: Tugali suteri (Thiele, 1917)
Size/Grows to:
Length 15mm, Width 11mm
Distribution:
North Island, Cook Strait and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACM
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Anal fasciole consists of two radial ribs, compared to three in T. elegans
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Bracegirdle, S. Nov/2003 Four Limpets - Owhiro Bay, Wellington, Cookia, 15 (p.20)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.40)

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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