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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)
> suteri (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Pholas spathulata G.B. Sowerby II, 1849 (preoccupied)
=Pholas suteri Lamy, 1926
Images: Pholadidea suteri Lamy, 1926
Tolaga Bay, East Cape. In soft mudstone. 37mm. © rights reserved
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)
> suteri (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Pholas spathulata G.B. Sowerby II, 1849 (preoccupied)
=Pholas suteri Lamy, 1926
Details: Pholadidea suteri Lamy, 1926
Size/Grows to:
Length 52mm, Height 20mm
Distribution:
North Island, and far northern and eastern South Island. Intertidal and immediate sublittoral, boring into soft rock, from 0-137m
Notes:
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Stevenson, A.G. Nov/2004 Collecting Rock Borers in New Zealand, Cookia, 16 (p.27)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.429)
  • Lamy, E. 1926 Révision des Pholadidae vivants du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Journal de Conchyliologie, 69 (p.393) Original Description

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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