Species List for Family: Propeamussiidae
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- Catillopecten murrayi (E.A. Smith, 1885)
Height 14.5mm
Marine
Coral Sea and Lord Howe Rise, 2561-2930 metres
A - Catillopecten tasmani Dijkstra & Marshall, 2008
Height 10mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Eastern Tasman Sea and Bounty Trough, taken alive at 1373-1676 metres from foraminiferal ooze
CF - Cyclopecten fluctuosus Dijkstra & Marshall, 2008
Height 6.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Tasman Basin and Bounty Trough, 1373-2154 metres
F - Cyclopecten horridus Dijkstra, 1995
Height 6mm
Marine
New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, and Kermadec Ridge
K
- Cyclopecten kapalae Dijkstra, 1990
Height 3.6mm
Marine
Off North Island and northern South Island, New Zealand, 512-1573 metres. Also Southeastern Australia, Kermadec Islands, Lord Howe Rise, Norfolk Ridge
KACM - Cyclopecten kermadecensis (E.A. Smith, 1885)
Height 7.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Kermadec Islands, 1097-1225 metres
K
- Cyclopecten powelli Dell, 1956
Height 7.5mm, Width 7mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Tasman Sea, west of Nelson, trawled 510-1463 metres
C - Cyclopecten secundus (Finlay, 1927)
Width 5mm, Height 4mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, North Cape, Whangaroa and Ranfurly Bank, 20-622 metres
A
- Cyclopecten textus Dijkstra & Marshall, 2008
Height 12.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Lord Howe Rise, 2928-2930 metres
A - Parvamussium cancellorum Dijkstra & Marshall, 2008
Width 7mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Norfolk Ridge, 442-774 metres
A
- Parvamussium cristatellum (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912)
Height 7.6mm
Marine
SE Africa, Indonesia, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Rise, and Kermadec Ridge
K
- Parvamussium maorium (Dell, 1956)
Height 13mm, Width 12mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North and South Island, Chatham Rise. Trawled 168 to over 1300 metres
ACFMAn
- Parvamussium retiolum Dijkstra, 1995
Height 13mm
Marine
West Norfolk Ridge, Kermadec Ridge, Three Kings Rise, and northern New Zealand, 316-1000 metres. Also Chesterfield Reefs (Coral Sea), New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, and Vanuatu
KAC
- Parvamussium squalidulum Dijkstra, 1995
Height 7.8mm
Marine
Kermadec Islands, 146-610 metres. Also Coral Sea, Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna
K
- Parvamussium vesiculatum Dijkstra, 1995
Height 7.6mm
Marine
West Norfolk Ridge, southern Kermadec Ridge, and northern New Zealand, 205-805 metres. Also Eastern Indonesia, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Norfolk Ridge, Wallis and Futuna, Vanuatu
KA
- Propeamussium investigatoris (E.A.Smith, 1906)
Height 13mm
Marine
Off Mayor Island, 388-550 metres, off White Island, 292-477 metres off Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, 530-567 metres
KA - Propeamussium meridionale (E.A. Smith, 1885)
Height 9mm
Marine
Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, Vanuatu, Lord Howe Rise, Norfolk Ridge, West Norfolk Ridge, Kermadec Islands, Three Kings Rise, Tasman Basin, and Bounty Trough, New Zealand, living at 619-5440 metres
KACAn - Propeamussium sibogai (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1904)
Height 60mm
Marine
South Africa, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Colville Ridge, and Kermadec Islands, 183-710 metres
K
- Sinepecten segonzaci Schein, 2006
Height 24mm
Marine
Manus back-arc basin, Papua-New Guniea, and Brothers volcano, southern Kermadec Ridge
K
Key to 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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