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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:
Northern north-western, north-eastern and south-western North Island and northern South Island as far south as Cloudy Bay, from 0-132m
Notes:
Marine, Native - 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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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