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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, from 0-567m
Type Data:
  • Stewart Island, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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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

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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