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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PECTINIDAE: PEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinidae (Family)
> Pedinae (Subfamily)
> Veprichlamys (Genus)
> kiwaensis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Chlamys kiwaensis Powell, 1933
Images: Veprichlamys kiwaensis Powell, 1933
Trawled in 440 metres, off Cape Campbell, NZ. 22mm. © rights reserved
Dredged in 300-600m, SW of Stewart Island, NZ. 15mm. © rights reserved
Collected 27 Sep 1976, wall of Pegasus Canyon, NE of Banks Peninsula, NZ (M.052769). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PECTINIDAE: PEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinidae (Family)
> Pedinae (Subfamily)
> Veprichlamys (Genus)
> kiwaensis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Chlamys kiwaensis Powell, 1933
Details: Veprichlamys kiwaensis Powell, 1933
Size/Grows to:
Height 30mm, Width 27mm
Distribution:
Southern New Caledonia, and NZ. Wanganella Bank, Three Kings, North, South, Auckland and Campbell Islands and Chatham Rise, from 263-1097m
Type Data:
  • 1100-1280 metres, W of New Plymouth, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Dijkstra, H., Marshall, B.A. 2008 The Recent Pectinoidea of the New Zealand region (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae and Spondylidae), Molluscan Research, 28 (p.61)
  • Dijkstra, H. 1995 Bathyal Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae, Pectinidae) from New Caledonia and adjacent areas. Resultats des Campagnes Musorstom volume 14, Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 167 (p.58)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.378)
  • Beu, A.G., Climo, F.M. 1974 Mollusca from a recent coral community in Palliser Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 8(2) (p.309)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1934 Two new Molluscs of the Pectinidae from 600-700 Fathoms, Four Hundred Miles West of New Plymouth, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 63 (p.371) 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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