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Taxonomy
Family:
NUCULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculida (Order)
> Nuculoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculidae (Family)
> Ennucula (Genus)
> strangei (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Nucula (Ennucula) Iredale, 1931
=Nuculoma Cossmann, 1907 (synonym)
Synonymised Names:
=Leionucula strangei (A. Adams, 1856)
=Nucula strangei A. Adams, 1856 (original combination)
Images: Ennucula strangei (A. Adams, 1856)
Collected by W.H.Webster, from Wellington area, NZ (MA14047). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Collected by W.H.Webster, from Wellington area, NZ (MA14047). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
NUCULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculida (Order)
> Nuculoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculidae (Family)
> Ennucula (Genus)
> strangei (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Nucula (Ennucula) Iredale, 1931
=Nuculoma Cossmann, 1907 (synonym)
Synonymised Names:
=Leionucula strangei (A. Adams, 1856)
=Nucula strangei A. Adams, 1856 (original combination)
Details: Ennucula strangei (A. Adams, 1856)
Size/Grows to:
Width 13mm, Height 11mm
Distribution:
North-eastern and south-western North Island and far northern South Island, from 11-356m
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.357)
  • Adams, A. 1856 Descriptions of thirty four new species of bivalve Mollusca (Leda, Nucula, and Pythina) from the Cumingian collection, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 24 (p.52) 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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