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Taxonomy
Family:
CARDITIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Carditidae (Family)
> Carditella (Genus)
> delli (Species)
Images: Carditella delli Crozier, 1966
Holotype, collected 15 Jul 1962, NW of Three Kings Islands, NZ (M.018484). 2.6mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 15 Jul 1962, NW of Three Kings Islands, NZ (M.018484). 2.6mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
CARDITIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Carditidae (Family)
> Carditella (Genus)
> delli (Species)
Details: Carditella delli Crozier, 1966
Size/Grows to:
Width 2.6mm, Height 2.3mm
Distribution:
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands and off Cape Reinga, from 23-805m
Type Data:
  • 800 metres, Three Kings Trough, NW of Three Kings Islands, NZ, (holotype, paratype)
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.409)
  • Crozier, M. 1966 New species and records of Mollusca from off the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand., Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 8 (p.41) 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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