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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 Gould, 1850
=Mytilus maorianus Iredale, 1915
Images: Aulacomya maoriana (Iredale, 1915)
More common in the south. From Stewart Island, NZ. 90mm
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 Gould, 1850
=Mytilus maorianus Iredale, 1915
Details: Aulacomya maoriana (Iredale, 1915)
Size/Grows to:
Length 60mm, Width 30mm
Distribution:
Lower North Island, South, Stewart, Chathams, Bounty, Auckland and Campbell Islands. Also off North Cape and Three Kings Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFMAn
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)

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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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