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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. © rights reserved
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 0-1006m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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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

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