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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MYTILIDAE: MODIOLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Mytilida (Order)
> Mytiloidea (Superfamily)
> Mytilidae (Family)
> Modiolinae (Subfamily)
> Aulacomya (Genus)
> maoriana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Mytilus (Aulacomya) Mörch, 1853
Synonymised Names:
=Aulacomya ater (Molina, 1782)
=Mytilus divaricatus A.A. Gould, 1850
=Mytilus maorianus Iredale, 1915
Images: Aulacomya maoriana (Iredale, 1915)
More common in the south. From Stewart Island, NZ. 90mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MYTILIDAE: MODIOLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Mytilida (Order)
> Mytiloidea (Superfamily)
> Mytilidae (Family)
> Modiolinae (Subfamily)
> Aulacomya (Genus)
> maoriana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Mytilus (Aulacomya) Mörch, 1853
Synonymised Names:
=Aulacomya ater (Molina, 1782)
=Mytilus divaricatus A.A. Gould, 1850
=Mytilus maorianus Iredale, 1915
Details: Aulacomya maoriana (Iredale, 1915)
Size/Grows to:
Length 60mm, Width 30mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands (shells), southern Bay of Plenty (small shells attached to beached algal holdfasts), south-eastern North Island, and South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands
Type Data:
  • Stewart Island, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Ribbed Mussel, Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.372)
  • Iredale, T. 1915 A Commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca", Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 47 (p.484)

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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