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Taxonomy
Family:
MYOCHAMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Myochamoidea (Superfamily)
> Myochamidae (Family)
> Hunkydora (Genus)
> novozelandica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Thracia novozelandica Reeve, 1859
=Thracia transenna Suter, 1913
Images: Hunkydora novozelandica (Reeve, 1859)
Dredged, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. ~28mm. © Cookia, Journal of the Wellington Shell Club/Kerry Walton
Collected Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Islan, Auckland, NZ (MA53518). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Collected Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Islan, Auckland, NZ (MA53518). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
MYOCHAMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Myochamoidea (Superfamily)
> Myochamidae (Family)
> Hunkydora (Genus)
> novozelandica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Thracia novozelandica Reeve, 1859
=Thracia transenna Suter, 1913
Details: Hunkydora novozelandica (Reeve, 1859)
Size/Grows to:
Width 30mm, Height 19mm
Distribution:
North, South and Stewart Island. In beach drift and dredged from around 5 to over 500 metres
Geographical Range:
ACF
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 2002 Some Recent Thraciidae, Periplomatidae, Myochamidae, Cuspidariidae and Spheniopsidae (Anomalodesmata) from the New Zealand region and referral of Thracia reinga Crozier, 1966 and Scintillona benthicola Dell, 1956 to Tellimya Brown, 1827 (Montacutidae) (Mollusca : Bivalvia), Molluscan Research, 22 (p.250)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.433)

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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