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Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Autobranchia (Subclass) > Heteroconchia (Infraclass) > Euhetrodonta (Subterclass) > Imparidentia (Superorder) > Venerida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Neoleptonidae (Family) > Neolepton (Genus)
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  • Genus: Neolepton

  • Neolepton antipodum (Filhol, 1880)
    Width 3.6mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Otago Peninsula, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands. Recorded from the intertidal zone (living on Corallina) down to at least 310m
    KACFMAnR.Fo.
  • Neolepton powelli Dell, 1964
    Width 3.2mm, Height 2.7mm
    Marine
    Macquarie Island, 120 metres
    An
  • Neolepton sublaevigatum (Powell, 1937)
    Width 2.8mm, Height 2.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, and Rungapapa Knoll. From approx. 120-800 metres
    ACFM
  • Neolepton subobliquum (Powell, 1937)
    Width 2mm, Height 1.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and off Spirits Bay and North Cape. From approx. 40-800 metres
    A
  • Neolepton triangulare (Dell, 1956)
    Width 2.6mm, Height 2.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, North Island, northern and eastern South Island, Chatham Islands and Chatham Rise. Intertidal to below 600 metres
    ACM
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