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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDITIDAE: MIODOMERIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Carditidae (Family)
> Miodomeridinae (Subfamily)
> Pleuromeris (Genus)
> zelandica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Venericardia (Pleuromeris) Conrad, 1867
Synonymised Names:
=Cardita zelandica Deshayes, 1854
=Venericardia (Pleuromeris) bollonsi Suter, 1907
=Venericardia bollonsi Suter, 1907
=Venericardia lutea Hutton, 1880
Images: Pleuromeris zelandica (Deshayes, 1854)
Bland Bay, Northland, NZ. 10mm. © rights reserved
Collected 23 Nov 1971, Rawhiti Bay, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ (M.040799). 8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDITIDAE: MIODOMERIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Carditidae (Family)
> Miodomeridinae (Subfamily)
> Pleuromeris (Genus)
> zelandica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Venericardia (Pleuromeris) Conrad, 1867
Synonymised Names:
=Cardita zelandica Deshayes, 1854
=Venericardia (Pleuromeris) bollonsi Suter, 1907
=Venericardia bollonsi Suter, 1907
=Venericardia lutea Hutton, 1880
Details: Pleuromeris zelandica (Deshayes, 1854)
Size/Grows to:
Width 10mm, Height 9mm
Distribution:
Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Auckland, Antipodes and Chatham Islands, from 2-805m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.408)
  • Deshayes, G.P. 1854 Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 20 (p.101) 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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