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Taxonomy
Family:
VENERIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Venerida (Order)
> Veneroidea (Superfamily)
> Veneridae (Family)
> Bassina (Genus)
> yatei (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bassina (Bassina) Jukes-Browne, 1914
=Bassina (Callanaitis) Iredale, 1917
=Callanaitis Iredale, 1917
Synonymised Names:
=Bassina (Callanaitis) yatei (Gray, 1835)
=Bassinaria macclurgi Marwick, 1928
=Chione chiloensis var. truncata Suter, 1917
=Circomphalus yatei (Gray, 1835)
=Venus calcarea Gould, 1850
=Venus lucasii Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854
=Venus yatei Gray, 1835
Images: Bassina yatei (Gray, 1835)
Collected 1961, Manukau Harbour, Auckland, NZ. 42mm
Collected 1961, Manukau Harbour, Auckland, NZ. 42mm
Taxonomy
Family:
VENERIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Venerida (Order)
> Veneroidea (Superfamily)
> Veneridae (Family)
> Bassina (Genus)
> yatei (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bassina (Bassina) Jukes-Browne, 1914
=Bassina (Callanaitis) Iredale, 1917
=Callanaitis Iredale, 1917
Synonymised Names:
=Bassina (Callanaitis) yatei (Gray, 1835)
=Bassinaria macclurgi Marwick, 1928
=Chione chiloensis var. truncata Suter, 1917
=Circomphalus yatei (Gray, 1835)
=Venus calcarea Gould, 1850
=Venus lucasii Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854
=Venus yatei Gray, 1835
Details: Bassina yatei (Gray, 1835)
Size/Grows to:
Width 66mm, Height 50mm
Distribution:
North Island, northern and eastern South Island, and Stewart Island
Geographical Range:
ACF
Notes:
Frilled Venus Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Matsukuma, A., Yoosukh, W. 1988 Living Bassina and Placumen (Bivalvia: Veneridae) from the Australasia and the Indo-Pacific. (Studies on the Kawamura Collection (Mollusca) stored in the National Science Museum, Tokyo - V), Saito Ho-on Special Publication (p.570)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.427)
  • Gray, J.E. 1835 Catalogue of shells collected on the east coast of New Zealand, by the Rev. W. Yate, An account of New Zealand; and of the formation and progress of the Church Missionary Society's mission in the northern island 2nd Ed, Seeley & Burnside, London (p.309) 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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