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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TELLINIDAE: MACOMINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Tellinoidea (Superfamily)
> Tellinidae (Family)
> Macominae (Subfamily)
> Ardeamya (Genus)
> spenceri (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Angulus spenceri (Suter, 1907)
=Peronaea spenceri (Suter, 1907)
=Rexithaerus spenceri (Suter, 1907)
=Tellina (Angulus) spenceri Suter, 1907
=Tellina (Tellinella) spenceri Suter, 1907
=Tellina spenceri Suter, 1907
Images: Ardeamya spenceri (Suter, 1907)
Whitianga, Coromandel, in beach drift. 43mm
Whitianga, Coromandel, in beach drift. 43mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TELLINIDAE: MACOMINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Tellinoidea (Superfamily)
> Tellinidae (Family)
> Macominae (Subfamily)
> Ardeamya (Genus)
> spenceri (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Angulus spenceri (Suter, 1907)
=Peronaea spenceri (Suter, 1907)
=Rexithaerus spenceri (Suter, 1907)
=Tellina (Angulus) spenceri Suter, 1907
=Tellina (Tellinella) spenceri Suter, 1907
=Tellina spenceri Suter, 1907
Details: Ardeamya spenceri (Suter, 1907)
Size/Grows to:
Width 63mm, Height 36mm
Distribution:
Northern and south-western North Island, and north-eastern South Island as far south as Banks Peninsula. Shallow sublittoral
Geographical Range:
ACF
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Huber, M. 2015 Compendium of Bivalves 2, ConchBooks: Harxheim, Germany (p.615)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.417)
  • Suter, H. 1907 Descriptions of six new species of shells and of Leptomya lintea, Hutton, from New Zealand, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 7 (p.212) 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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