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Taxonomy
Family:
YOLDIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculanida (Order)
> Nuculanoidea (Superfamily)
> Yoldiidae (Family)
> Yoldiella (Genus)
> librata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Portlandia (Yoldiella) Verrill & Bush, 1897
=Yoldia (Yoldiella) Verrill & Bush, 1897
Synonymised Names:
=Ledella librata Dell, 1952
Images: Yoldiella librata (Dell, 1952)
Holotype of Ledella liberata, collected in 536 metres Challenger Plateau, W of NZ (M.005547). 3.1mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype of Ledella liberata, collected in 536 metres Challenger Plateau, W of NZ (M.005547). 3.1mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
YOLDIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculanida (Order)
> Nuculanoidea (Superfamily)
> Yoldiidae (Family)
> Yoldiella (Genus)
> librata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Portlandia (Yoldiella) Verrill & Bush, 1897
=Yoldia (Yoldiella) Verrill & Bush, 1897
Synonymised Names:
=Ledella librata Dell, 1952
Details: Yoldiella librata (Dell, 1952)
Size/Grows to:
Length 3.1mm, Height 1.9mm
Distribution:
Tasman Sea. Off west coast of North Island, 536 metres. West Norfolk Ridge, 800 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.102) 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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