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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)
> Nuculana (Genus)
> investigator (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Leda Schumacher, 1817
=Thestyleda Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Thestyleda investigator Dell, 1952
Images: Nuculana investigator Dell, 1952
Holotype of Thestyleda investigator, collected 24 Oct 1950, Challenger Plateau, NZ (M.005544). 4.8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype of Thestyleda investigator, collected 24 Oct 1950, Challenger Plateau, NZ (M.005544). 4.8mm. © 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)
> Nuculana (Genus)
> investigator (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Leda Schumacher, 1817
=Thestyleda Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Thestyleda investigator Dell, 1952
Details: Nuculana investigator Dell, 1952
Size/Grows to:
Width 4.8mm, Height 2.3mm
Distribution:
North-eastern and southern North Island, south-eastern South Island, Challenger Plateau and Chatham Rise, from 527-1006m
Type Data:
  • 540 metres, Challenger Plateau, W of North Island, NZ, (holotype of Thestyleda investigator Dell, 1952)
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.361)
  • Dell, R.K. 1952 A deep water molluscan fauna from the Tasman Sea, Dominion Museum Records in Zoology, 1(10) (p.100) Original Description

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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