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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDITIDAE: CUNINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Carditidae (Family)
> Cuninae (Subfamily)
> Condylocuna (Genus)
> mernoo (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Condylocuna Iredale, 1936
Synonymised Names:
=Condylocardia mernoo Dell, 1952
Images: Condylocuna mernoo (Dell, 1952)
Holotype of Condylocardia mernoo, collected 6 Nov 1936, Mernoo Bank, W Chatham Rise, NZ (M005498). 1.3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDITIDAE: CUNINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Carditidae (Family)
> Cuninae (Subfamily)
> Condylocuna (Genus)
> mernoo (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Condylocuna Iredale, 1936
Synonymised Names:
=Condylocardia mernoo Dell, 1952
Details: Condylocuna mernoo (Dell, 1952)
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.3mm, Height 1.1mm
Distribution:
Mernoo Bank, western Chatham Rise. 95 metres
Geographical Range:
C
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)
  • Dell, R.K. 1952 New marine Mollusca from the Cook Strait area and southern New Zealand., Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 79(2) (p.412) 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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