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Taxonomy
Family:
LASAEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Galeommatida (Order)
> Galeommatoidea (Superfamily)
> Lasaeidae (Family)
> Arthritica (Genus)
> hulmei (Species)
Images: Arthritica hulmei Ponder, 1965
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Taxonomy
Family:
LASAEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Galeommatida (Order)
> Galeommatoidea (Superfamily)
> Lasaeidae (Family)
> Arthritica (Genus)
> hulmei (Species)
Details: Arthritica hulmei Ponder, 1965
Size/Grows to:
Width 3.4mm, Height 2.8mm
Distribution:
Northland to Wellington, Cook Strait area
Geographical Range:
ACE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic, Commensal with a large polychaete worm, the seamouse, Aphrodita australis
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.392)
  • Gardner, N.W. Jun/1974 The genus Arthritica Finlay, 1927 - Small Commensal Bivalves, Poirieria, 7(4) (p.79)
  • Ponder, W.F. 1965 The biology of the genus Arthritica, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 6 (p.83) Original Description

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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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil