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Taxonomy
Family:
HYRIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Palaeoheterodonta (Subclass)
> Unionoida (Order)
> Hyrioidea (Superfamily)
> Hyriidae (Family)
> Echyridella (Genus)
> onekaka (Species)
Images: Echyridella onekaka Fenwick & Marshall, 2006
Onekaka River, South of Collingwood. 50mm
Holotype, collected 20 Mar 2005, tributary of Onekaka River, Onekaka, S of Collingwood, NZ. (M.183157). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 20 Mar 2005, tributary of Onekaka River, Onekaka, S of Collingwood, NZ. (M.183157). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 20 Mar 2005, tributary of Onekaka River, Onekaka, S of Collingwood, NZ. (M.183157). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
HYRIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Palaeoheterodonta (Subclass)
> Unionoida (Order)
> Hyrioidea (Superfamily)
> Hyriidae (Family)
> Echyridella (Genus)
> onekaka (Species)
Details: Echyridella onekaka Fenwick & Marshall, 2006
Distribution:
South Island. S of Collingwood
Geographical Range:
Fw.S.E.
Notes:
Freshwater Mussel, Freshwater, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Fenwick, M.C., Ritchie, P.A. 2014 New Zealand Recent Hyriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionida), Molluscan Research, 34(3) (p.13)
  • Fenwick, M.C., Marshall, B.A. 2006 A new species of Echyridella from New Zealand, and recognition of Echyridella lucasi (Suter, 1905) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Hyriidae), Molluscan Research, 26(2) (p.70)
  • Marshall, B.A., Fenwick, M.C. 2006 Unio zelebori Dunker in Dunker & Zelebor, 1866, a form of Cafferia caffra (Krauss, 1848) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae), Molluscan Research, 26(1) (p.70) Original Description

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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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