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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDIIDAE: TRACHYCARDIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Cardioidea (Superfamily)
> Cardiidae (Family)
> Trachycardiinae (Subfamily)
> Acrosterigma (Genus)
> sorenseni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Trachycardium (Acrosterigma) Dall, 1900
Synonymised Names:
=Trachycardium (Vasticardium) sorenseni Powell, 1958
Images: Acrosterigma sorenseni (Powell, 1958)
Holotype, collected in 1944, Denham Bay, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands (MA71236). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected in 1944, Denham Bay, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands (MA71236). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Kermadec Islands, NZ. 34mm
Kermadec Islands, NZ. 34mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDIIDAE: TRACHYCARDIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Cardioidea (Superfamily)
> Cardiidae (Family)
> Trachycardiinae (Subfamily)
> Acrosterigma (Genus)
> sorenseni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Trachycardium (Acrosterigma) Dall, 1900
Synonymised Names:
=Trachycardium (Vasticardium) sorenseni Powell, 1958
Details: Acrosterigma sorenseni (Powell, 1958)
Distribution:
Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Vidal, J. 1999 Taxonomic review of the elongated cockles: genera Trachycardium, Vasticacrdium and Acrosterigma (Mollusca: Cardiidae), Zoosystema, 21 (p.280)
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.213)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1958 Mollusca of the Kermadec Islands. Part 1, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 5(1) (p.76) Original Description

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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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