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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NUCULANIDAE: NUCULANINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculanida (Order)
> Nuculanoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculanidae (Family)
> Nuculaninae (Subfamily)
> Saccella (Genus)
> maxwelli (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Ledina Sacco, 1898
=Nuculana (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Nuculana (Saccella) maxwelli (Beu, 2006)
=Nuculana maxwelli (Beu, 2006)
=Saccella bellula of authors not Adams
Images: Saccella maxwelli Beu, 2006
Dredged 18 fathoms, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 9mm
Dredged 18 fathoms, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 9mm
Collected 9 Mar 1976, off shelf of flats inside Farewell Spit, Golden Bay, NZ (M.180819). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected 9 Mar 1976, off shelf of flats inside Farewell Spit, Golden Bay, NZ (M.180819). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NUCULANIDAE: NUCULANINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculanida (Order)
> Nuculanoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculanidae (Family)
> Nuculaninae (Subfamily)
> Saccella (Genus)
> maxwelli (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Ledina Sacco, 1898
=Nuculana (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Nuculana (Saccella) maxwelli (Beu, 2006)
=Nuculana maxwelli (Beu, 2006)
=Saccella bellula of authors not Adams
Details: Saccella maxwelli Beu, 2006
Size/Grows to:
Length 10mm, Height 5.2mm, Thickness 4mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G. 2006 Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 2. Biostratigraphically useful and new Pliocene to Recent bivalves, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 36 (p.151) Original Description
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.359)

*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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