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Taxonomy
Family:
PULVINITIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Ostreida (Order)
> Pterioidea (Superfamily)
> Pulvinitidae (Family)
> Pulvinites (Genus)
> exempla (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Foramelina Hedley, 1914
Synonymised Names:
=Foramelina exempla Hedley, 1914
Images: Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914)
Dredged on oblique rock surfaces, in 500-600 m, off Southern NZ. Image: K. Walton, rights reserved
Dredged on oblique rock surfaces, in 500-600 m, off Southern NZ. Image: K. Walton, rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
PULVINITIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Ostreida (Order)
> Pterioidea (Superfamily)
> Pulvinitidae (Family)
> Pulvinites (Genus)
> exempla (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Foramelina Hedley, 1914
Synonymised Names:
=Foramelina exempla Hedley, 1914
Details: Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914)
Size/Grows to:
Width 130mm
Distribution:
Off South Island, Chatham and Campbell Islands. Trawled around 170-500 metres. Attached to rock
Geographical Range:
KF
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Tëmkin, I. 2006 Anatomy, shell morphology, and microstructure of the living fossil Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pulvinitidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 148 (p.523)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1998 Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914) from the New Zealand region (Bivalvia: Pulvinitidae), The Nautilus, 112(4) (p.101)

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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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