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Taxonomy
Family:
GALEOMMATIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Galeommatida (Order)
> Galeommatoidea (Superfamily)
> Galeommatidae (Family)
> Scintilla (Genus)
> stevensoni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Lactemiles Iredale, 1931
=Scintillorbis Kuroda & Habe, 1971
Images: Scintilla stevensoni Powell, 1932
Collected Feb 1985, Moturoa Island, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ (M.319852). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
GALEOMMATIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Galeommatida (Order)
> Galeommatoidea (Superfamily)
> Galeommatidae (Family)
> Scintilla (Genus)
> stevensoni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Lactemiles Iredale, 1931
=Scintillorbis Kuroda & Habe, 1971
Details: Scintilla stevensoni Powell, 1932
Size/Grows to:
Width 7mm, Height 4mm
Distribution:
North Island. Northland to Hauraki Gulf. Under stones and in rock crevices at and below low tide. Also Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.213)
  • Morley, M.S. Jul/1986 The Climbing Bivalve, Poirieria, 15(2) (p.2)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.398)
  • Warren, T.P. Dec/1962 Scintilla stevensoni, Poirieria, 1(2) (p.22)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1932 On some New Zealand pelecypods, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 20 (p.65) 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