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Taxonomy
Family:
MALLETIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculanida (Order)
> Nuculanoidea (Superfamily)
> Malletiidae (Family)
> Neilo (Genus)
> blacki (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Malletia (Neilo) A. A. Adams, 1854
=Neilo (Neilo) A. A. Adams, 1854 accepted, alternate representation
Images: Neilo blacki B.A. Marshall, 1978
Off Palliser Bay, Cook Strait, NZ. 31mm. © rights reserved
Off Palliser Bay, Cook Strait, NZ. 31mm. © rights reserved
Holotype, collected 18 Mar 1976, off Kaikoura Peninsula, NZ (M.058364). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 18 Mar 1976, off Kaikoura Peninsula, NZ (M.058364). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
MALLETIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculanida (Order)
> Nuculanoidea (Superfamily)
> Malletiidae (Family)
> Neilo (Genus)
> blacki (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Malletia (Neilo) A. A. Adams, 1854
=Neilo (Neilo) A. A. Adams, 1854 accepted, alternate representation
Details: Neilo blacki B.A. Marshall, 1978
Size/Grows to:
Length 36mm, Height 19mm
Distribution:
South-eastern North Island and north-eastern South Island. Living in mud, from 439-1952m
Type Data:
  • 790 metres, off Palliser Bay, Cook Strait, NZ, (paratype)
  • 1000 metres, off Palliser Bay, Cook Strait, NZ, (paratype)
  • 780 metres, off Kaikoura Peninsula, NZ, (holotype, paratype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. Sep/1978 The genus Neilo in New Zealand (Mollusca: Bivalvia), New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 5(3) (p.430) 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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