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Taxonomy
Family:
PTERIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Ostreida (Order)
> Pterioidea (Superfamily)
> Pteriidae (Family)
> Pteria (Genus)
> levitata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Austropteria Iredale, 1939
=Avicula Bruguière, 1792
=Electroma (Pterelectroma) Iredale, 1939
=Magnavicula Iredale, 1939
Synonymised Names:
=Austropteria levitata Iredale, 1939
=Pteria avicular Brook & Marshall not Holten
Images: Pteria levitata (Iredale, 1939)
Middle Arch, approx. 8 metres, Poor Knights Islands, Northland, NZ. ~70mm. Reproduced courtesy of seacologynz.com
Middle Arch, approx. 8 metres, Poor Knights Islands, Northland, NZ. ~70mm. Reproduced courtesy of seacologynz.com
Collected in 15 metres, off Meyer Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ (MA77749). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Collected in 15 metres, off Meyer Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ (MA77749). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
PTERIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Ostreida (Order)
> Pterioidea (Superfamily)
> Pteriidae (Family)
> Pteria (Genus)
> levitata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Austropteria Iredale, 1939
=Avicula Bruguière, 1792
=Electroma (Pterelectroma) Iredale, 1939
=Magnavicula Iredale, 1939
Synonymised Names:
=Austropteria levitata Iredale, 1939
=Pteria avicular Brook & Marshall not Holten
Details: Pteria levitata (Iredale, 1939)
Size/Grows to:
Length 60mm, Height 17mm
Distribution:
North Island. Off Poor Knights Islands, on antipatharian coral. Also Kermadecs and Queensland, Australia, from 15m
Type Data:
  • Port Curtis, Queensland, Australia, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Spencer, H.G. 2013 Comments on some taxonomic changes affecting marine Bivalvia of the New Zealand region recently introduced in Huber's Compendium of bivalves, with some additional taxonomic changes, Molluscan Research, 33(1) (p.42)
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.212)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.375)
  • Iredale, T. 1939 Mollusca. Part I, Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929, 5(6) (p.331) 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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