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Taxonomy
Family:
PROPEAMUSSIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Propeamussiidae (Family)
> Parvamussium (Genus)
> maorium (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Propeamussium (Parvamussium)
Images: Parvamussium maorium (Dell, 1956)
Holotype, collected Mar 1954, Karitane Canyon, off Otago Peninsula, NZ (M.009171). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
PROPEAMUSSIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Propeamussiidae (Family)
> Parvamussium (Genus)
> maorium (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Propeamussium (Parvamussium)
Details: Parvamussium maorium (Dell, 1956)
Size/Grows to:
Height 13mm, Width 12mm
Distribution:
North and South Island, Chatham Rise. Trawled 168 to over 1300 metres
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.9)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.381)
  • Dell, R.K. 1956 The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand, Dominion Museum Bulletin, 18 (p.20) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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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