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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NUCULANIDAE: POROLEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculanida (Order)
> Nuculanoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculanidae (Family)
> Poroledinae (Subfamily)
> Poroleda (Genus)
> lanceolata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Leda (Poroleda) Hutton, 1893
=Nuculana (Poroleda) Hutton, 1893
Synonymised Names:
=Poroleda pertubata Iredale, 1924
=Scaphula lanceolata Hutton, 1885
Images: Poroleda lanceolata (Hutton, 1885)
Deep Water Cove, Bay of Islands, dredged 30 approx. metres. 13mm. © rights reserved
Holotype of Poroleda pertubata Iredale, 1924, collected 22 Jan 1904, Off Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ (MA72961). ~13mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NUCULANIDAE: POROLEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculanida (Order)
> Nuculanoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculanidae (Family)
> Poroledinae (Subfamily)
> Poroleda (Genus)
> lanceolata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Leda (Poroleda) Hutton, 1893
=Nuculana (Poroleda) Hutton, 1893
Synonymised Names:
=Poroleda pertubata Iredale, 1924
=Scaphula lanceolata Hutton, 1885
Details: Poroleda lanceolata (Hutton, 1885)
Size/Grows to:
Length 18mm, Height 6mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. In soft mud, from 15-517m
Type Data:
  • 200 metres, E of Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ, (holotype of Poroleda pertubata Iredale, 1924)
  • Petane, (Nukumaruan, Lower Pleistocene), Napier, Hawkes Bay, NZ (Fossil), (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Walton, K. Nov/2011 Recent additions to the checklist of Marine Mollusca from Wellington Harbour and approaches, Cookia, 23 (p.13)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.362)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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