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Pleuromeris zelandica (Deshayes, 1854)Species Images
Bland Bay, Northland. 10mm
Collected 23 Nov 1971, Rawhiti Bay, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. (M.040799). Width 8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy: Pleuromeris zelandica (Deshayes, 1854)
Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Archiheterodonta (Infraclass) > Carditida (Order) > Carditoidea (Superfamily) > Carditidae (Family) > Miodomeridinae (Subfamily) > Pleuromeris (Genus) > zelandica (Species)
Family: Subfamily:
CARDITIDAE: MIODOMERIDINAE
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
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Details: Pleuromeris zelandica (Deshayes, 1854)
Size/Grows to:
Width 10mm, Height 9mm
Distribution:
North, South and Stewart Island. Below low tide to over 200 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFE.
Notes:
Marine, 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. 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

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