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Species List for Family: Carditidae
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  • Family: Carditidae

  • Carditella delli Crozier, 1966
    Width 2.6mm, Height 2.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands and off Cape Reinga, from 23-805m
  • Hamacuna aupouria (Powell, 1937)
    Width 2.1mm, Height 2.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks and Three Kings Islands, from 91-805m
  • Hamacuna gibbosa (Powell, 1937)
    Width 2mm, Height 2.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands and off Cape Reinga, from 4-805m
  • Hamacuna otagoensis (Powell, 1927)
    Height 1.5mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island and Stewart Island, from 35-220m
  • Cardita distorta Reeve, 1843
    Length 38mm, Width 26mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland and Chatham Islands, from 0-622m
  • Condylocuna concentrica (F. Bernard, 1897)
    Width 1mm, Height 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island, Stewart, Snares and Bounty Islands, and Chatham Islands, from 0-420m
  • Condylocuna mernoo (Dell, 1952)
    Width 1.3mm, Height 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Mernoo Bank, western Chatham Rise, from 95m
  • Condylocuna torquata (Marwick, 1928)
    Width 1.8mm, Height 1.5mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham Islands, from 0m
  • Cuna carditelloides (Suter, 1911)
    Width 2.5mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern and southern North Island, eastern and south-western South Island, Auckland, Campbell and Chatham Islands, Challenger Plateau and Chatham Rise, from 60-803m
  • Cuna compressidens (Powell, 1933)
    Width 1.3mm, Height 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island as far south as Tauranga, from 18-188m
  • Cuna laqueus (Finlay, 1927)
    Width 2.6mm, Height 2.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island and Stewart Island, from 0-360m
  • Cuna manawatawhia (Powell, 1937)
    Width 2.6mm, Height 2.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, Cape Reinga and north-eastern North Island as far south as Karikari Peninsula, from 28-805m
  • Cuna mayi (Powell, 1930)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern and south-western North Island, and north-western South Island, from 37-282m
  • Cuna mendica (Dell, 1952)
    Width 1.8mm, Height 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Challenger Plateau, Tasman Sea
  • Cuna waikukuensis (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.9mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Spirits Bay and Waikuku Beach, northern Northland, from 29-63m
  • Pleuromeris benthicola Powell, 1937
    Width 2.6mm, Height 2.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and northern North Island as far south as Cape Karikari, from 30-805m
  • Pleuromeris finlayi Powell, 1938
    Marine, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Napier (Pliocene blue clay) and Castlepoint (arenaceous limestone)
  • Pleuromeris hectori Powell, 1938
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Off Cape Reinga and north-eastern North Island as far south as Hawkes Bay, from 15-188m
  • Pleuromeris latiuscula Powell, 1937
    Width 2.2mm, Height 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 13-88m
  • Pleuromeris marshalli (Marwick, 1924)
    Height 6.5mm, Width 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, and South, Stewart, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank., from 8-805m
  • Pleuromeris paucicostata Laws, 1940
    Height 9mm, Width 7.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Bay of Plenty. Dredged to around 110 metres
  • Pleuromeris ultima Dell, 1956
    Width 8.5mm, Height 7.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham Islands, from 229-604m
  • Pleuromeris zelandica (Deshayes, 1854)
    Width 10mm, Height 9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Auckland, Antipodes and Chatham Islands, from 2-805m
  • Powellina brookesi Finlay, 1926
    Width 13mm, Height 7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as East Cape. Under stones, from 0-622m
  • Purpurocardia purpurata (Deshayes, 1854)
    Width 45mm, Height 40mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    W of Cape Reinga, north-eastern and south-western North Island, northern and southern South Island, and Stewart, Auckland, Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank, from 0-1006m
  • Purpurocardia reinga (Powell, 1933)
    Width 32mm, Height 24mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, Cook Strait, and north-eastern South Island, from 0-622m
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