Tecticrater subcompressus
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| Tecticrater subcompressus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Lepetellidae |
| Genus: | Tecticrater |
| Species: | T. subcompressus
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| Binomial name | |
| Tecticrater subcompressus (Powell, 1937)
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Tecticrater subcompressa Powell, 1937 | |
Tecticrater subcompressus is a species of very small deepwater limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lepetellidae.[1] The species was originally described by Arthur William Baden Powell as Tectisumen subcompressa in 1937.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.
References
[edit]- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Tecticrater subcompressa (Powell, 1937). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598169 on 2013-02-11
- ^ Powell, A. W. B. (1937). "New Species of Marine Mollusca from New Zealand". Discovery Reports. 15: 188–189.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1