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Taxonomy
Family:
CRASSATELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Crassatelloidea (Superfamily)
> Crassatellidae (Family)
> Talabrica (Genus)
> bellula (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Crassatella banksii A. Adams & Angas, 1864
=Crassatella bellula A. Adams, 1854
=Crassatella simplex Kobelt, 1886
=Crassatellites banksii (A. Adams & Angas, 1864)
=Crassatina bellula (A. Adams, 1854)
=Gouldia isabella Hutton, 1873
Images: Talabrica bellula (A. Adams, 1854)
Collected locality unknown, NZ (M.000341). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
CRASSATELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Crassatelloidea (Superfamily)
> Crassatellidae (Family)
> Talabrica (Genus)
> bellula (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Crassatella banksii A. Adams & Angas, 1864
=Crassatella bellula A. Adams, 1854
=Crassatella simplex Kobelt, 1886
=Crassatellites banksii (A. Adams & Angas, 1864)
=Crassatina bellula (A. Adams, 1854)
=Gouldia isabella Hutton, 1873
Details: Talabrica bellula (A. Adams, 1854)
Size/Grows to:
Width 18mm, Height 15mm
Distribution:
Northern North Island as far south as Colville Channel, from 0-233m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, On sandy bottoms
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.411)
  • Adams, A. 1854 Descriptions of a new genus, and of several new species, of Mollusca, from the Cumingian collection, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 20 (p.95) 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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