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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
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)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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