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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PHOLADIDAE: MARTESIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Myida (Order)
> Pholadoidea (Superfamily)
> Pholadidae (Family)
> Martesiinae (Subfamily)
> Pholadidea (Genus)
> acherontea (Species)
Images: Pholadidea acherontea Beu & Climo, 1974
Holotype, collected 11 May 1972, Cook Strait, off Turakirae Head, Nicholson Canyon, NZ (M.029171). 23mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 11 May 1972, Cook Strait, off Turakirae Head, Nicholson Canyon, NZ (M.029171). 23mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PHOLADIDAE: MARTESIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Myida (Order)
> Pholadoidea (Superfamily)
> Pholadidae (Family)
> Martesiinae (Subfamily)
> Pholadidea (Genus)
> acherontea (Species)
Details: Pholadidea acherontea Beu & Climo, 1974
Size/Grows to:
Length 26mm, Height 17mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands, North and South Island, and Chatham Rise. Dredged around 50-800 metres
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.429)
  • Beu, A.G., Climo, F.M. 1974 Mollusca from a recent coral community in Palliser Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 8(2) (p.310) 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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