Tugali stewartiana
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| Tugali stewartiana Powell, 1939 |
Tugali stewartiana is a species of medium-sized sea snail or limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the Family Fissurellidae, the keyhole and slit limpets.
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[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is found around Stewart Island.
[edit] Habitat
This limpet lives at depths of from low tide to 65 m.
[edit] Shell description
Compared with Tugali elegans, this species is less tapered anteriorly, and has much coarser sculpture: the radials are fewer, broader and flatter and the concentric ridges also are fewer and stronger.
The maximum shell height is 10 mm, width 18 mm, and length 27 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A W B, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
