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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
    North, South, Stewart, Chatham Islands, and southern 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, Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 260 metres
    ACFME.
  • Neolepton subobliquum (Powell, 1937)
    Width 2mm, Height 1.9mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 260 metres
    AE.
  • Neolepton triangulare (Dell, 1956)
    Width 2.6mm, Height 2.3mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Chatham Rise and off Chatham Islands
    ME.
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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil