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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)
> reinga (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Venericardia reinga Powell, 1933
Images: Purpurocardia reinga (Powell, 1933)
In beach drift, Far North, NZ. 27mm
Holotype, collected by W.H. Webster, Cape Maria van Diemen, Far North, NZ (MA70822). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected by W.H. Webster, Cape Maria van Diemen, Far North, NZ (MA70822). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
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)
> reinga (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Venericardia reinga Powell, 1933
Details: Purpurocardia reinga (Powell, 1933)
Size/Grows to:
Width 32mm, Height 24mm
Distribution:
Middlesex and King banks, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, Cook Strait, and north-eastern South Island. From low tide to over 620 metres
Geographical Range:
AC
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)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1933 New pelecypod Mollusca from northern New Zealand, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 20(5) (p.202) 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
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