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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
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
Geographical Range:
ACFR.Fo.
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

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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