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Taxonomy
Family:
VERTICORDIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Verticordioidea (Superfamily)
> Verticordiidae (Family)
> Spinosipella (Genus)
> deshayesiana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Iphigenia O.G. Costa, 1850
=Verticordia (Spinosipella) Iredale, 1930
Synonymised Names:
=Spinosipella ericia (Hedley, 1911)
=Verticordia deshayesiana P. Fischer, 1862
=Verticordia ericia Hedley, 1911
=Verticordia japonica A. Adams, 1862
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Taxonomy
Family:
VERTICORDIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Verticordioidea (Superfamily)
> Verticordiidae (Family)
> Spinosipella (Genus)
> deshayesiana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Iphigenia O.G. Costa, 1850
=Verticordia (Spinosipella) Iredale, 1930
Synonymised Names:
=Spinosipella ericia (Hedley, 1911)
=Verticordia deshayesiana P. Fischer, 1862
=Verticordia ericia Hedley, 1911
=Verticordia japonica A. Adams, 1862
Details: Spinosipella deshayesiana (P. Fischer, 1862)
Size/Grows to:
Width 6.5mm, Height 6mm
Distribution:
South and Central Indo-Pacific. Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands and Kermadec Islands. Also off South Australia, from 100-805m
Type Data:
  • 175-185 metres, off Cape Wiles, South Australia, (paratype of Spinosipella ericia Poutiers & Bernard, 1995)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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References and Publications
  • Simone, L.R.L., Cunha, C.M. 2008 Revision of the genus Spinosipella (Bivalvia: Verticordiidae), with descriptions of two new species from Brazil, The Nautilus, 122(2) (p.64)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.435)

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