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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:
Stewart Island and Snares Islands, also recently recorded from the Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
FMAn
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

*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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