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Taxonomy
Family:
CALYPTRAEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Calyptraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Calyptraeidae (Family)
> Sigapatella (Genus)
> terraenovae (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
Synonymised Names:
=Trochita alta Hutton, 1885
=Zegalerus crater Finlay, 1926
=Zegalerus tumens Finlay, 1930
Images: Sigapatella terraenovae Peile, 1924
In beach drift, Far North, NZ. 26mm
Spirits Bay, Far North, NZ. 29mm
Collected Cape Maria van Diemen, Far North, NZ (M.018468). © 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)
> terraenovae (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
Synonymised Names:
=Trochita alta Hutton, 1885
=Zegalerus crater Finlay, 1926
=Zegalerus tumens Finlay, 1930
Details: Sigapatella terraenovae Peile, 1924
Size/Grows to:
Length 34mm, Height 20mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands, Far North and Ranfurly Bank, East Cape. Attached to hard substrate, 27-93 metres
Geographical Range:
AC
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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.131)
  • Cumber, R.A. Aug/1981 An unusual form of Zegalerus sp. from Great Exhibition Bay, Poirieria, 11(1) (p.5)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.149)
  • Peile, A. 1924 A new species of Sigapatella (S. terraenovae), Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 16 (p.21) Original Description

*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