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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDITIDAE: VENERICARDIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Carditidae (Family)
> Venericardiinae (Subfamily)
> Purpurocardia (Genus)
> purpurata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cardita purpurata Deshayes, 1854
=Venericardia purpurata (Deshayes, 1854)
=Venericardia quoyi (Deshayes, 1854)
Images: Purpurocardia purpurata (Deshayes, 1854)
In beach drift, Bream Bay, Northland, NZ. 38mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDITIDAE: VENERICARDIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Carditidae (Family)
> Venericardiinae (Subfamily)
> Purpurocardia (Genus)
> purpurata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cardita purpurata Deshayes, 1854
=Venericardia purpurata (Deshayes, 1854)
=Venericardia quoyi (Deshayes, 1854)
Details: Purpurocardia purpurata (Deshayes, 1854)
Size/Grows to:
Width 45mm, Height 40mm
Distribution:
W of Cape Reinga, north-eastern and south-western North Island, northern and southern South Island, and Stewart, Auckland, Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank. From low tide to approx. 1000 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFMAn
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.407)
  • 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.100) 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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil