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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MACTRIDAE: MACTRINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Venerida (Order)
> Mactroidea (Superfamily)
> Mactridae (Family)
> Mactrinae (Subfamily)
> Scalpomactra (Genus)
> scalpellum (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Darina pusilla Hutton, 1873
=Mactra scalpellum Reeve, 1854
Images: Scalpomactra scalpellum (Reeve, 1854)
Bay of Islands, NZ. 21mm
Bay of Islands, NZ. 21mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MACTRIDAE: MACTRINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Venerida (Order)
> Mactroidea (Superfamily)
> Mactridae (Family)
> Mactrinae (Subfamily)
> Scalpomactra (Genus)
> scalpellum (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Darina pusilla Hutton, 1873
=Mactra scalpellum Reeve, 1854
Details: Scalpomactra scalpellum (Reeve, 1854)
Size/Grows to:
Length 34mm, Height 20mm
Distribution:
Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank
Geographical Range:
ACF
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.414)
  • Reeve, L.A. 1854 Monograph of the genus Mactra, Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, 8 (p.1) Original Description

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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