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Taxonomy
Family:
CALYPTRAEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Calyptraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Calyptraeidae (Family)
> Sigapatella (Genus)
> superstes (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Calyptraea (Sigapatella) Lesson, 1831
=Clypeola Gray, 1868
=Sigapatella (Sigapatella) Lesson, 1831
=Sigapatella (Spirogalerus) Finlay & Marwick, 1937
=Spirogalerus Finlay & Marwick, 1937
=Zegalerus Finlay, 1926
Images: Sigapatella superstes Fleming, 1958
In beach drift, Far North, NZ. 26mm
Holotype, collected Cape Maria van Diemen, Far North, NZ (M.000129). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected Cape Maria van Diemen, Far North, NZ (M.000129). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
CALYPTRAEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Calyptraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Calyptraeidae (Family)
> Sigapatella (Genus)
> superstes (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Calyptraea (Sigapatella) Lesson, 1831
=Clypeola Gray, 1868
=Sigapatella (Sigapatella) Lesson, 1831
=Sigapatella (Spirogalerus) Finlay & Marwick, 1937
=Spirogalerus Finlay & Marwick, 1937
=Zegalerus Finlay, 1926
Details: Sigapatella superstes Fleming, 1958
Size/Grows to:
Length 30mm, Height 12mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as The Aldermen Islands. 0-805 metres
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Granulose surface pattern
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 2003 A review of the Recent and late Cenozoic Calyptraeidae of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda), The Veliger, 46(2) (p.135)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.148)
  • Jul/1970 Sigapatella superstes Fleming, 1958, Poirieria, 5(4) (p.59)
  • Fleming, C.A. 1958 A new species of Sigapatella (Gastropoda) from Cape Maria van Diemen, Northland, New Zealand, Records of the Dominion Museum, 3(2) (p.141) Original Description

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

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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