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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
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 10-180 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFM
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)

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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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