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Taxonomy
Family:
NUCULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculida (Order)
> Nuculoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculidae (Family)
> Linucula (Genus)
> hartvigiana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Nucula (Linucula) Marwick, 1931
Synonymised Names:
=Nucula (Lamellinucula) hartvigiana Dohrn, 1864
=Nucula hartvigiana Dohrn, 1864
=Nucula lacunosa Hutton, 1884
=Nucula sulcata A. Adams, 1856 (invalid: junior homonym)
Images: Linucula hartvigiana (Dohrn, 1864)
On Zostera flats, Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, NZ. 7mm
On Zostera flats, Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, NZ. 7mm
Taxonomy
Family:
NUCULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculida (Order)
> Nuculoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculidae (Family)
> Linucula (Genus)
> hartvigiana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Nucula (Linucula) Marwick, 1931
Synonymised Names:
=Nucula (Lamellinucula) hartvigiana Dohrn, 1864
=Nucula hartvigiana Dohrn, 1864
=Nucula lacunosa Hutton, 1884
=Nucula sulcata A. Adams, 1856 (invalid: junior homonym)
Details: Linucula hartvigiana (Dohrn, 1864)
Size/Grows to:
Width 8mm, Height 7mm, Thickness 5.6mm
Distribution:
Throughout NZ, Chathams, Auckland and Campbell Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFMAnE.
Notes:
Nut Shell, Marine, Endemic, Common on Zostera, sea-grass flats
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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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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