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  • Family: Pectinidae

  • Ciclopecten fluctuatus (Bavay, 1905)
    Height 5.45mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Andaman Sea, Indonesia, Vanuatu, Loyalty Islands, and Kermadec Ridge, from 538m
  • Delectopecten fosterianus (Powell, 1933)
    Height 19mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    West Norfolk Ridge, Three Kings Rise, E of North Cape, Kermadec Ridge, western and south-eastern North Island, north-eastern and western South Island, Challenger Plateau, Auckland Islands and Chatham Rise, from 376-1568m
  • Hyalopecten hadalis (Knudsen, 1970)
    Height 13.2mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Off Lord Howe Island, Kermadec Trench and Hikurangi Trench, from 1828-6620m
  • Sinepecten segonzaci Schein, 2006
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Kermadec Ridge, from 1400-1600m
  • Mesopeplum convexum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
    Width 55mm, Height 50mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, north-eastern and south-western North Island, northern and southern South Island, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank, from 0-274m
  • Pseudamussium challengeri (E.A. Smith, 1891)
    Height 8.1mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Northern North Island and Challenger Plateau. Also South eastern Australia, Tasman Sea, from 572-1029m
  • Annachlamys iredalei (Powell, 1958)
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Coral Sea, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, and Kermadec Islands, from 30-100m
  • Pecten novaezelandiae Reeve, 1852
    Width 175mm, Height 150mm
    Queen Scallop, Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands, North Island, northern and southern South Island, Stewart and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank, from 0-188m
  • Pecten raoulensis Powell, 1958
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Raoul and Curtis Islands, Kermadec Islands, from 30-146m
  • Austrochlamys natans walosseki Jonkers, 2003
    Height 108mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    South-eastern South America and off Auckland Islands, southern New Zealand, from 490-510m
  • Cryptopecten bullatus (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912)
    Height 30mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    SW Indian Ocean, SE Africa, Japan, E China Sea, Philippines, Indonesia, E Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Hawaiian Islands, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Ridge, and Kermadec Islands, from 135-366m
  • Mimachlamys sanguinea (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Marine
    Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific, Norfolk Island, and Kermadec Islands, NZ Far North, from 472-610m
  • Pascahinnites coruscans (Hinds, 1845)
    Height 21mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Tropical and subtropical Indo-West Pacific, Kermadec Islands, from 0-46m
  • Scaeochlamys livida (Lamarck, 1819)
    Height 70mm
    Marine, Non-indigenous
    Australia. Occasional records from northern NZ
  • Talochlamys dichroa (Suter, 1909)
    Height 48mm, Width 46mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Wanganella, Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, Ranfurly Bank, eastern South Island, Stewart, Snares, Campbell and Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank. In cod stomachs and trawled, from 20-805m
  • Talochlamys gemmulata (Reeve, 1853)
    Height 73mm, Width 68mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank, from 0-695m
  • Talochlamys zelandiae (Gray, 1843)
    Height 58mm, Width 55mm
    Fan Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic, Often encased in sponge
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank, from 0-1006m
  • Veprichlamys kiwaensis Powell, 1933
    Height 30mm, Width 27mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Southern New Caledonia, and NZ. Wanganella Bank, Three Kings, North, South, Auckland and Campbell Islands and Chatham Rise, from 263-1097m
  • Zygochlamys delicatula (Hutton, 1873)
    Width 60mm, Height 60mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Three Kings Islands (old shells), Cook Strait, eastern South Island, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, Pukaki Rise, Chatham Rise and Macquarie Island, from 6-457m
NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil