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Taxonomy
Family:
THRACIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Thracioidea (Superfamily)
> Thraciidae (Family)
> Thracia (Genus)
> vegrandis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Odoncineta O.G. Costa, 1830
=Thracia (Crassithracia) Soot-Ryen, 1941 accepted, alternate representation
=Thracia (Odoncineta) O.G. Costa, 1830 accepted, alternate representation
=Thracia (Thracia) Blainville, 1824 accepted, alternate representation
Images: Thracia vegrandis Marshall & Murdoch, 1919
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Taxonomy
Family:
THRACIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Thracioidea (Superfamily)
> Thraciidae (Family)
> Thracia (Genus)
> vegrandis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Odoncineta O.G. Costa, 1830
=Thracia (Crassithracia) Soot-Ryen, 1941 accepted, alternate representation
=Thracia (Odoncineta) O.G. Costa, 1830 accepted, alternate representation
=Thracia (Thracia) Blainville, 1824 accepted, alternate representation
Details: Thracia vegrandis Marshall & Murdoch, 1919
Size/Grows to:
Width 25mm, Height 17mm
Distribution:
North, South, Chatham, Auckland and Cambell Islands. Dredged from around 10 to over 50 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFMAnR.Fo.
Notes:
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.433)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1974 New Zealand Molluscan Systematics with Descriptions of New Species: Part 8, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 11 (p.200)
  • Marshall, P., Murdoch, R. 1919 Some new fossil species of Mollusca, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 51 (p.258) Original Description

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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