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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)
> Myochama (Genus)
> tasmanica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Gouldia tasmanica Tenison-Woods, 1877
=Myochama woodsii Petterd, 1884
Images: Myochama tasmanica (Tenison Woods, 1877)
Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, dredged in shallow water. 17mm. © rights reserved
Collected 10 Mar 1983, Arch Pinnacle, Princes Islands, Three Kings Islands, NZ (M.117130). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
MYOCHAMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Myochamoidea (Superfamily)
> Myochamidae (Family)
> Myochama (Genus)
> tasmanica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Gouldia tasmanica Tenison-Woods, 1877
=Myochama woodsii Petterd, 1884
Details: Myochama tasmanica (Tenison Woods, 1877)
Size/Grows to:
Width 18mm, Height 15mm
Distribution:
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern North Island, southern South Island, Stewart and Auckland Islands. Attached to bivalves. Also southern Tasmania, from 7-555m
Type Data:
  • Long Bay, Tasmania, Australia, (syntype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-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.248)
  • Smith, N. Jun/1996 Poirieria Twenty Years Ago, Poirieria, 18 (p.25)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.432)
  • Gardner, N.W. Mar/1976 Myochama tasmanica from Northland, Poirieria, 8(3)
  • 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.197)
  • Tenison Woods, J.T. 1877 On some new Tasmanian marine shells, Papers and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania (p.158) 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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