Species List for Family: Carditidae
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- Carditella delli Crozier, 1966
Width 2.6mm, Height 2.3mm
Marine, Endemic
North of Three Kings Islands, trawled in 800 metres
AE.
- Hamacuna aupouria (Powell, 1937)
Width 2.1mm, Height 2.3mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 260 metres
AE.
- Hamacuna gibbosa (Powell, 1937)
Width 2mm, Height 2.3mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 260 metres
AE.
- Hamacuna otagoensis (Powell, 1927)
Height 1.5mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Otago Heads to Foveaux Strait
FE.
- Cardita distorta Reeve, 1843
Length 38mm, Width 26mm
Marine, Endemic
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. From low tide to about 180 metres
ACFMAnE.
- Condylocuna concentrica (F. Bernard, 1897)
Width 1mm, Height 1.1mm
Marine, Endemic
South Island, Stewart, Snares and Bounty Islands
CFMAnE.
- Condylocuna mernoo (Dell, 1952)
Width 1.3mm, Height 1.1mm
Marine, Endemic
Mernoo Bank, western Chatham Rise
CE.
- Condylocuna torquata (Marwick, 1928)
Width 1.8mm, Height 1.5mm
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Endemic
Off Chatham Islands
MR.Fo.E. - Cuna carditelloides (Suter, 1911)
Width 2.5mm, Height 3mm
Marine, Endemic
Off North, South, Chatham, Auckland and Campbell Islands
ACFMAnE.
- Cuna compressidens (Powell, 1933)
Width 1.3mm, Height 1.4mm
Marine, Endemic
North Island East Coast, Northland to East Cape
AE.
- Cuna laqueus (Finlay, 1927)
Width 2.6mm, Height 2.6mm
Marine, Endemic
South Island, Foveaux Strait, and Snares Islands
FAnE.
- Cuna manawatawhia (Powell, 1937)
Width 2.6mm, Height 2.9mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, Northland and Bay of Plenty
AE. - Cuna mayi (Powell, 1930)
Height 2.5mm, Width 1.9mm
Marine, Endemic
North Island. Off Northland to Cook Strait and NW Nelson
ACE.
- Cuna mendica (Dell, 1952)
Width 1.8mm, Height 1.7mm
Marine, Endemic
Tasman Sea, west of North Island, in 980 metres
CE.
- Cuna waikukuensis (Powell, 1937)
Height 1.9mm, Width 1.7mm
Marine, Endemic
Off North Cape, trawled in 53 metres
AE. - Pleuromeris benthicola Powell, 1937
Width 2.6mm, Height 2.3mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, and isolated records off Northland
AE.
- Pleuromeris latiuscula Powell, 1937
Width 2.2mm, Height 2.2mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Northland to East Cape
AE.
- Pleuromeris marshalli (Marwick, 1924)
Height 6.5mm, Width 6mm
Marine, Endemic
South, Stewart, Chatham, Bounty and Auckland Islands
FMAnE.
- Pleuromeris paucicostata Laws, 1940
Height 9mm, Width 7.5mm
Marine, Endemic
Northland to Bay of Plenty. Dredged to around 110 metres
AE. - Pleuromeris ultima Dell, 1956
Width 8.5mm, Height 7.5mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Chatham Islands 210-600 metres
ME.
- Pleuromeris zelandica (Deshayes, 1854)
Width 10mm, Height 9mm
Marine, Endemic
North, South and Stewart Island. Below low tide to over 200 metres
ACFE.
- Powellina brookesi Finlay, 1926
Width 13mm, Height 7mm
Marine, Endemic
Northland to Bay of Plenty and East Cape. Under stones at low tide
AE.
- Purpurocardia purpurata (Deshayes, 1854)
Width 45mm, Height 40mm
Marine, Endemic
North, South, Stewart, Chatham and Auckland Islands
ACFMAnE.
- Purpurocardia reinga (Powell, 1933)
Width 32mm, Height 24mm
Marine, Endemic
North Island, Far North
AE.
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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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