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Taxonomy
Family:
LIMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Limida (Order)
> Limoidea (Superfamily)
> Limidae (Family)
> Lima (Genus)
> zealandica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Lima colorata zealandica G.B. Sowerby III, 1877
=Lima mestayerae Marwick, 1924
Images: Lima zealandica G.B. Sowerby III, 1877
Dredged in Foveaux Strait, NZ. 32mm
Taxonomy
Family:
LIMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Limida (Order)
> Limoidea (Superfamily)
> Limidae (Family)
> Lima (Genus)
> zealandica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Lima colorata zealandica G.B. Sowerby III, 1877
=Lima mestayerae Marwick, 1924
Details: Lima zealandica G.B. Sowerby III, 1877
Size/Grows to:
Height 85mm, Width 58mm
Distribution:
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, North Cape, south-western North Island, Cook Strait, South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell and Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank. Dredged from shallow water to around 130 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFMAn
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Spencer, H.G. 2013 Comments on some taxonomic changes affecting marine Bivalvia of the New Zealand region recently introduced in Huber's Compendium of bivalves, with some additional taxonomic changes, Molluscan Research, 33(1) (p.42)
  • Huber, M. 2010 Compendium of Bivalves 1, ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany (p.632)
  • Beu, A.G., Maxwell, P.A. 1990 Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey, 58 (p.182)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.381)
  • Sowerby III, G.B. 1876 Descriptions of six new species of shells from the collections of the Marchioness Paulucci and Dr. Prevost, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (p.754) Original Description

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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