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Taxonomy
Family:
GADILIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Scaphopoda (Class)
> Gadilida (Order)
> Gadilimorpha (Suborder)
> Gadilidae (Family)
> Cadulus (Genus)
> teliger (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Helonyx Stimpson, 1865
Images: Cadulus teliger Finlay, 1927
Dredged Marlborough Sounds, NZ (NMR 77735). 5mm. Natural History Museum Rotterdam (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Holotype, collected in 174 metres, off Auckland Islands, NZ (MA70127). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
GADILIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Scaphopoda (Class)
> Gadilida (Order)
> Gadilimorpha (Suborder)
> Gadilidae (Family)
> Cadulus (Genus)
> teliger (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Helonyx Stimpson, 1865
Details: Cadulus teliger Finlay, 1927
Size/Grows to:
Length 5mm, Diameter 0.7mm
Distribution:
Three Kings to Chatham and Auckland Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFMAnE.
Notes:
Tusk Shell, Marine, Endemic
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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
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