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Taxonomy
Family:
UNGULINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Venerida (Order)
> Ungulinoidea (Superfamily)
> Ungulinidae (Family)
> Zemysina (Genus)
> globus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Diplodonta (Zemysina) Finlay, 1926
=Zemysia (Zemysina) Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Diplodonta (Zemysina) globus (Finlay, 1926)
=Diplodonta globus (Finlay, 1926)
=Zemysia (Zemysina) globus Finlay, 1926
=Zemysia globus Finlay, 1926
Images: Zemysina globus (Finlay, 1926)
Collected 25 Feb 1972, North Arm, Port Pegasus, NZ (M.026636). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
UNGULINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Venerida (Order)
> Ungulinoidea (Superfamily)
> Ungulinidae (Family)
> Zemysina (Genus)
> globus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Diplodonta (Zemysina) Finlay, 1926
=Zemysia (Zemysina) Finlay, 1926
Synonymised Names:
=Diplodonta (Zemysina) globus (Finlay, 1926)
=Diplodonta globus (Finlay, 1926)
=Zemysia (Zemysina) globus Finlay, 1926
=Zemysia globus Finlay, 1926
Details: Zemysina globus (Finlay, 1926)
Size/Grows to:
Width 28mm, Height 26mm, Thickness 20mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart, Auckland and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank. In shallow water to about 90 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFMAn
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.388)
  • Jun/1974 Diplodonta - Sorting them out, Poirieria, 7(4) (p.87)
  • Finlay, H. 1926 A Further Commentary on New Zealand Molluscan Systematics, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 57 (p.462) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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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