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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:
Tasman Sea. Off West Coast North Island 980 metres
Geographical Range:
C
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

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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