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Tecticrater subcompressus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Lepetellidae
Genus:	Tecticrater
Species:	T. subcompressus
Binomial name
Tecticrater subcompressus (Powell, 1937)
Synonyms
Tecticrater subcompressa Powell, 1937 Tectisumen subcompressa Powell, 1937

Tecticrater subcompressus is a species of very small deepwater limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lepetellidae. The species was originally described by Arthur William Baden Powell as Tectisumen subcompressa in 1937.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.

References

1. 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
2. Powell, A. W. B. (1937). "New Species of Marine Mollusca from New Zealand". Discovery Reports. 15: 188–189.

Further reading

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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