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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
GLYCYMERIDAE: GLYCYMERINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Arcida (Order)
> Arcoidea (Superfamily)
> Glycymeridae (Family)
> Glycymerinae (Subfamily)
> Glycymeris (Genus)
> modesta (Species)
Images: Glycymeris modesta (Angas, 1879)
Whangarei Heads, Northland, NZ. 23mm
Whangarei Heads, Northland, NZ. 23mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
GLYCYMERIDAE: GLYCYMERINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Arcida (Order)
> Arcoidea (Superfamily)
> Glycymeridae (Family)
> Glycymerinae (Subfamily)
> Glycymeris (Genus)
> modesta (Species)
Details: Glycymeris modesta (Angas, 1879)
Size/Grows to:
Width 26mm, Height 24mm
Distribution:
King Bank and Three Kings Islands, Cape Reinga, north-eastern and south-western North Island, far northern and southern South Island, Stewart and Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank. Living in shallow water to about 50 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Small Dog Cockle, Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.366)

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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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