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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)
> Tellimya (Genus)
> reinga (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Decipula Jeffreys, 1876
=Montacuta (Tellimya) T. Brown, 1827
Synonymised Names:
=Thracia reinga Crozier, 1966
Images: Tellimya reinga Crozier, 1966
Holotype, collected 15 Jul 1962, Three Kings Trough, NW of Three Kings Islands, NZ (M.018490). 11mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 15 Jul 1962, Three Kings Trough, NW of Three Kings Islands, NZ (M.018490). 11mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected 25 Jan 1979, off East Cape, Ranfurly Bank, East Cape, NZ (M.071711). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
LASAEIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Galeommatida (Order)
> Galeommatoidea (Superfamily)
> Lasaeidae (Family)
> Tellimya (Genus)
> reinga (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Decipula Jeffreys, 1876
=Montacuta (Tellimya) T. Brown, 1827
Synonymised Names:
=Thracia reinga Crozier, 1966
Details: Tellimya reinga Crozier, 1966
Size/Grows to:
Length 12mm, Height 6mm
Distribution:
West Norfolk Ridge, Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as East Cape, from 47-805m
Type Data:
  • 800 metres, Three Kings Trough, NW of Three Kings Islands, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 2002 Some Recent Thraciidae, Periplomatidae, Myochamidae, Cuspidariidae and Spheniopsidae (Anomalodesmata) from the New Zealand region and referral of Thracia reinga Crozier, 1966 and Scintillona benthicola Dell, 1956 to Tellimya Brown, 1827 (Montacutidae) (Mollusca : Bivalvia), Molluscan Research, 22 (p.223)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.433)
  • Crozier, M. 1966 New species and records of Mollusca from off the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand., Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 8 (p.43) 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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