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Taxonomy
Family:
LIMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Limida (Order)
> Limoidea (Superfamily)
> Limidae (Family)
> Divarilima (Genus)
> sydneyensis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Lima brunnea Hedley, 1901
=Lima sydneyensis Hedley, 1904
Images: Divarilima sydneyensis (Hedley, 1904)
Bland Bay, Northland, in beach drift. 6mm
Taxonomy
Family:
LIMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Limida (Order)
> Limoidea (Superfamily)
> Limidae (Family)
> Divarilima (Genus)
> sydneyensis (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Lima brunnea Hedley, 1901
=Lima sydneyensis Hedley, 1904
Details: Divarilima sydneyensis (Hedley, 1904)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm, Width 5.5mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands to Northland east coast. Under stones from low tide
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • 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.381)
  • Nov/1970 Divarilima sydneyensis Hedley, 1904, Poirieria, 5(5) (p.80)

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
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