Search
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
Notes:
Tusk Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.354)
  • Finlay, H. 1926 A Further Commentary on New Zealand Molluscan Systematics, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 57 (p.444) 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
Recently Viewed