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Taxonomy
Family:
SEMELIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Tellinoidea (Superfamily)
> Semelidae (Family)
> Ervilia (Genus)
> bisculpta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Spondervilia Iredale, 1930
Synonymised Names:
=Ervilia ambla Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
=Ervilia australis Angas, 1877
=Ervilia japonica A. Adams, 1862
=Ervilia livida Gould, 1861
Images: Ervilia bisculpta Gould, 1861
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Taxonomy
Family:
SEMELIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Tellinoidea (Superfamily)
> Semelidae (Family)
> Ervilia (Genus)
> bisculpta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Spondervilia Iredale, 1930
Synonymised Names:
=Ervilia ambla Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
=Ervilia australis Angas, 1877
=Ervilia japonica A. Adams, 1862
=Ervilia livida Gould, 1861
Details: Ervilia bisculpta Gould, 1861
Distribution:
Indo-West Pacific, Red Sea and Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Raines, B., Huber, M. 2012 Biodiversity quadrupled - Revision of Easter Island and Salas y Gómez Bivalves, Zootaxa, 3217 (p.81)
  • 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)

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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