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Taxonomy
Family:
VENERIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Venerida (Order)
> Veneroidea (Superfamily)
> Veneridae (Family)
> Globivenus (Genus)
> toreuma (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ventricolaria Keen, 1954
Synonymised Names:
=Chione toreuma (Gould, 1850)
=Venus crebrisulca Lamarck, 1818 sensu G. B. Sowerby II, 1853
=Venus hawaiensis Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
=Venus jukesi Deshayes, 1853
=Venus sculpta Deshayes, 1854
=Venus toreuma Gould, 1850
Images: Globivenus toreuma (Gould, 1850)
Kermadec Islands, NZ
Kermadec Islands, NZ
Taxonomy
Family:
VENERIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Venerida (Order)
> Veneroidea (Superfamily)
> Veneridae (Family)
> Globivenus (Genus)
> toreuma (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ventricolaria Keen, 1954
Synonymised Names:
=Chione toreuma (Gould, 1850)
=Venus crebrisulca Lamarck, 1818 sensu G. B. Sowerby II, 1853
=Venus hawaiensis Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
=Venus jukesi Deshayes, 1853
=Venus sculpta Deshayes, 1854
=Venus toreuma Gould, 1850
Details: Globivenus toreuma (Gould, 1850)
Distribution:
Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • 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.214)
  • Gould, A. 1850 Descriptions of new species of shells from the United States Exploring Expedition, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 3 (p.277) 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