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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. © rights reserved
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:
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and North Island as far south as Mayor Island. Under stones from low tide, from 0-805m
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)

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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