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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 0-230 metres
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, On sandy bottoms, in shallow water to about 90 metres
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

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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