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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PECTINIDAE: PEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinidae (Family)
> Pedinae (Subfamily)
> Scaeochlamys (Genus)
> livida (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Ostrea tegula W. Wood, 1828
=Pecten foliaceus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
=Pecten lividus Lamarck, 1819
=Scaeochlamys livida peroniana Iredale, 1939
Images: Scaeochlamys livida (Lamarck, 1819)
Attached to boat hull originally from Sydney, Australia, and washed up at Henderson Bay, Far North, NZ. 63mm
Attached to boat hull originally from Sydney, Australia, and washed up at Henderson Bay, Far North, NZ. 50mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PECTINIDAE: PEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinidae (Family)
> Pedinae (Subfamily)
> Scaeochlamys (Genus)
> livida (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Ostrea tegula W. Wood, 1828
=Pecten foliaceus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
=Pecten lividus Lamarck, 1819
=Scaeochlamys livida peroniana Iredale, 1939
Details: Scaeochlamys livida (Lamarck, 1819)
Size/Grows to:
Height 70mm
Distribution:
Australia. Occasional records from northern NZ
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine, Non-indigenous
Distribution Map
 
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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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