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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 in about 150 feet, on antipatharian coral. Also Kermadecs and Queensland, Australia
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine
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

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