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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)
> hedleyi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Ledina Sacco, 1898
=Nuculana (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Jupiteria zealedaformis Dell, 1953
=Leda fastidiosa A. Adams, 1856 sensu Martens, 1873
=Nuculana (Saccella) hedleyi C.A. Fleming, 1951
=Nuculana hedleyi C.A. Fleming, 1951
=Saccella hedleyi morioria Dell, 1956
Images: Saccella hedleyi (Fleming, 1951)
Holotype of Saccella hedleyi morioria Dell, 1956, collected 23 Jan 1954, western Chatham Rise, NZ (M.009269). 8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype of Saccella hedleyi morioria Dell, 1956, collected 23 Jan 1954, western Chatham Rise, NZ (M.009269). 8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype of Jupiteria zealedaformis, collected 4/11/1950, Chatham Rise, NZ (M.005688). 3.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype of Jupiteria zealedaformis, collected 4/11/1950, Chatham Rise, NZ (M.005688). 3.5mm. © 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)
> hedleyi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Ledina Sacco, 1898
=Nuculana (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Jupiteria zealedaformis Dell, 1953
=Leda fastidiosa A. Adams, 1856 sensu Martens, 1873
=Nuculana (Saccella) hedleyi C.A. Fleming, 1951
=Nuculana hedleyi C.A. Fleming, 1951
=Saccella hedleyi morioria Dell, 1956
Details: Saccella hedleyi (Fleming, 1951)
Size/Grows to:
Length 8.2mm, Height 5mm, Thickness 4mm
Distribution:
North Island and Chatham Rise
Geographical Range:
ACM
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.359)
  • Fleming, C.A. 1951 Some Australasian Mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History), Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 79(1) (p.128) Original Description

*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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