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Taxonomy
Family:
SEMELIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Tellinoidea (Superfamily)
> Semelidae (Family)
> Leptomya (Genus)
> retiaria (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Leptomya perconfusa Iredale, 1915
=Macoma suteri E.A. Smith, 1898
=Tellina lintea Hutton, 1873 (non Conrad, 1837)
=Tellina retiaria Hutton, 1885
Images: Leptomya retiaria (Hutton, 1885)
Syntype of Leptomya perconfusa Iredale, 1915; syntype of Tellina lintea Hutton, 1873, collected NZ (M.000330). 22mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Syntype of Leptomya perconfusa Iredale, 1915; syntype of Tellina lintea Hutton, 1873, collected NZ (M.000330). 22mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
SEMELIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Tellinoidea (Superfamily)
> Semelidae (Family)
> Leptomya (Genus)
> retiaria (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Leptomya perconfusa Iredale, 1915
=Macoma suteri E.A. Smith, 1898
=Tellina lintea Hutton, 1873 (non Conrad, 1837)
=Tellina retiaria Hutton, 1885
Details: Leptomya retiaria (Hutton, 1885)
Size/Grows to:
Width 20mm, Height 15mm
Distribution:
Middlesex Bank, and Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Auckland Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFMAn
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.420)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1885 Descriptions of new Tertiary shells. Part 1, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 17 (p.322) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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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