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Taxonomy
Family:
THYASIRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Lucinida (Order)
> Thyasiroidea (Superfamily)
> Thyasiridae (Family)
> Maorithyas (Genus)
> marama (Species)
Images: Maorithyas marama Fleming, 1950
Dredged in 60 metres, between Taiaroa Head and Taiaroa Canyon, Otago, NZ. 5mm. © rights reserved
Dredged in 60 metres, between Taiaroa Head and Taiaroa Canyon, Otago, NZ. 5mm. © rights reserved
Collected Nov 1934, 24 metres George Sound, Fiordland, NZ (MA11342). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
THYASIRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Lucinida (Order)
> Thyasiroidea (Superfamily)
> Thyasiridae (Family)
> Maorithyas (Genus)
> marama (Species)
Details: Maorithyas marama Fleming, 1950
Size/Grows to:
Width 18mm, Height 17mm
Distribution:
Eastern and south-western South Island and Stewart Island, from 6-417m
Type Data:
  • Wet Jacket Arm, Fiordland, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.387)
  • Fleming, C.A. 1950 New Zealand Recent Thyasiridae (Mollusca), Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 78(2) (p.253) 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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