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Taxonomy
Family:
CUSPIDARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Cuspidarioidea (Superfamily)
> Cuspidariidae (Family)
> Cuspidaria (Genus)
> fairchildi (Species)
Images: Cuspidaria fairchildi Suter, 1908
Syntype, collected off Flat Point, Wairarapa coast, NZ (M.001896). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Syntype, collected off Flat Point, Wairarapa coast, NZ (M.001896). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected in 600 metres, off East Otago Head, NZ. 23mm
Collected in 600 metres, off East Otago Head, NZ. 23mm
Taxonomy
Family:
CUSPIDARIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Cuspidarioidea (Superfamily)
> Cuspidariidae (Family)
> Cuspidaria (Genus)
> fairchildi (Species)
Details: Cuspidaria fairchildi Suter, 1908
Size/Grows to:
Width 67mm, Height 29mm
Distribution:
North, South and Chatham Islands, and Chatham Rise. Trawled around 130-650 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.436)
  • Suter, H. 1908 Descriptions of new species of New Zealand Mollusca., Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 40 (p.372) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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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