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Taxonomy
Family:
LIMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Limida (Order)
> Limoidea (Superfamily)
> Limidae (Family)
> Limatula (Genus)
> suteri (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Limatula (Stabilima) Iredale, 1939 accepted, alternate representation
=Stabilima Iredale, 1939
=Limatula (Limatuletta) C. A. Fleming, 1978 accepted, alternate representation
=Limatuletta Fleming, 1978
Synonymised Names:
=Lima suteri Dall, 1908
Images: Limatula suteri (Dall, 1908)
Collected 22 Feb 1972, North Arm, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, NZ (M.044799). 9mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
LIMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Limida (Order)
> Limoidea (Superfamily)
> Limidae (Family)
> Limatula (Genus)
> suteri (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Limatula (Stabilima) Iredale, 1939 accepted, alternate representation
=Stabilima Iredale, 1939
=Limatula (Limatuletta) C. A. Fleming, 1978 accepted, alternate representation
=Limatuletta Fleming, 1978
Synonymised Names:
=Lima suteri Dall, 1908
Details: Limatula suteri (Dall, 1908)
Size/Grows to:
Height 11mm, Width 6mm
Distribution:
Three Kings, northern and south-western North Island, South, Stewart and Auckland Islands, Pukaki Rise, Bounty Plateau and Chatham Rise, from 16-660m
Type Data:
  • 33 metres, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Description:
Smaller and narrower than maoria Radial ribs fewer, and grouped posterior to the median ridge.

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References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.382)
  • Fleming, C.A. 1978 The bivalve genus Limatula: a list of described species and a review of living and fossil species in the Southwest Pacific, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 8 (p.38)
  • Dall, W.H. 1908 Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer 'Albatross,' during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer 'Albatross', from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 43(6) (p.410) Original Description

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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