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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
Dredged in 300-600m, SW of Stewart Island, NZ. 15mm
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 New Zealand, 263-1130 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Marine
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

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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