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Taxonomy
Family:
CONDYLOCARDIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Condylocardiidae (Family)
> Condylocardia (Genus)
> crassicosta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Hippella Mörch, 1861
=Radiocondyla Iredale, 1936
Images: Condylocardia crassicosta F. Bernard, 1897
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Taxonomy
Family:
CONDYLOCARDIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Condylocardiidae (Family)
> Condylocardia (Genus)
> crassicosta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Hippella Mörch, 1861
=Radiocondyla Iredale, 1936
Details: Condylocardia crassicosta F. Bernard, 1897
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.6mm, Height 1.5mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands, North Island, southern South Island, and Stewart, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands. Dredged from 5 to over 400 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.408)
  • Bernard, F.R. 1896 Diagnoses de coquilles nouvelles de Lamellibranches (genres Condylocardia et Hochstetteria), Bulletin du Muse´um d'histoire naturelle, 2(5) (p.196) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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