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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TELLINIDAE: TELLININAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Tellinoidea (Superfamily)
> Tellinidae (Family)
> Tellininae (Subfamily)
> Pristipagia (Genus)
> radians (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Tellina parva Bertin, 1878
=Tellina radians Deshayes, 1855
=Tellinella radians (Deshayes, 1855)
Images: Pristipagia radians (Deshayes, 1855)
Kermadec Islands, NZ. 12mm. © rights reserved
Kermadec Islands, NZ. 12mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TELLINIDAE: TELLININAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Tellinoidea (Superfamily)
> Tellinidae (Family)
> Tellininae (Subfamily)
> Pristipagia (Genus)
> radians (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Tellina parva Bertin, 1878
=Tellina radians Deshayes, 1855
=Tellinella radians (Deshayes, 1855)
Details: Pristipagia radians (Deshayes, 1855)
Size/Grows to:
Length 20mm
Distribution:
Australia to Japan, and Kermadec Islands. Also has been recorded from Easter Island, from 10-42m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Huber, M. 2015 Compendium of Bivalves 2, ConchBooks: Harxheim, Germany (p.593)
  • Raines, B., Huber, M. 2012 Biodiversity quadrupled - Revision of Easter Island and Salas y Gómez Bivalves, Zootaxa, 3217 (p.78)
  • 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)
  • Deshayes, G.P. 1855 Descriptions of new shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 22 (p.366)

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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