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Taxonomy
Family:
NUCULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculida (Order)
> Nuculoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculidae (Family)
> Austronucula (Genus)
> schencki (Species)
Images: Austronucula schencki Powell, 1939
Holotype, collected pre 1939, Rosa Island, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, NZ (MA70076). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected pre 1939, Rosa Island, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, NZ (MA70076). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected pre 1939, Rosa Island, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, NZ (MA70076). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected pre 1939, Rosa Island, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, NZ (MA70076). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Collected 14 Feb 1987, outer George Sound, Fiordland, NZ (M.139300). 1.1mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
NUCULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculida (Order)
> Nuculoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculidae (Family)
> Austronucula (Genus)
> schencki (Species)
Details: Austronucula schencki Powell, 1939
Size/Grows to:
Height 1.0mm, Width 1.15mm
Distribution:
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and southern North Island, and South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, from 0-121m
Type Data:
  • Rosa Island, Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Walton, K. Nov/2015 New records of intertidal and shallow sub-tidal (to 30 m) Mollusca from the Chatham Islands, Cookia, 27 (p.2)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.358)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1939 The Mollusca of Stewart Island., Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 2 (p.220) 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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