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Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Autobranchia (Subclass) > Heteroconchia (Infraclass) > Euhetrodonta (Subterclass) > Imparidentia (Superorder) > Venerida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family)
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  • Family: Veneridae

  • Austrovenus stutchburyi (W. Wood, 1828)
    Width 60mm, Height 54mm. with records over 80mm
    Cockle, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart, Auckland and Chatham Islands, from 0-69m
  • Bassina yatei (Gray, 1835)
    Width 66mm, Height 50mm
    Frilled Venus Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island, northern and eastern South Island, and Stewart Island, from 0-44m
  • Dosina mactracea (Broderip, 1835)
    Width 70mm, Height 52mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart, Auckland and Chatham Islands, from 0-415m
  • Dosinia anus (Philippi, 1848)
    Width 82mm, Height 73mm
    Coarse Dosinia, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island, from 0-10m
  • Dosinia greyi Zittel, 1865
    Width 50mm, Height 46mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Islands, and Mernoo Bank. Dredged in soft mud, from 5-375m
  • Dosinia lambata (Gould, 1850)
    Width 40mm, Height 35mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Found on sheltered sandy beaches
    North Island, and South Island as far south as Dunedin, from 0-530m
  • Dosinia maoriana W.R.B. Oliver, 1923
    Width 46mm, Height 43mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern and south-western North Island, Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank, from 0-188m
  • Dosinia subrosea (Gray, 1835)
    Width 75mm, Height 71mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Islands, from 0-77m
  • Globivenus toreuma (Gould, 1850)
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Kermadec Islands, from 0-219m
  • Gomphina maorum (E.A. Smith, 1902)
    Width 19mm, Height 16mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and far northern North Island as far south as Taupiri Bay, from 0-805m
  • Irus elegans (Deshayes, 1854)
    Length 60mm, Height 36mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Burrows in soft rock
    North Island and eastern South Island, from 0-4m
  • Irus reflexus (Gray, 1843)
    Length 31mm, Height 24mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank. Intertidal, in holes in soft rock, from 0-237m
  • Leukoma crassicosta (Deshayes, 1835)
    Width 60mm, Height 48mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Intertidal and immediate sublittoral, from 0-55m
  • Notocallista multistriata (Sowerby, 1851)
    Width 30mm, Height 22mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, South, Stewart and Auckland Islands, and Mernoo Bank, from 0-555m
  • Tawera marionae Finlay, 1928
    Width 33mm, Height 28mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island and Chatham Islands, from 0-604m
  • Tawera mawsoni (Hedley, 1916)
    Width 40mm, Height 32mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Macquarie Island
  • Tawera phenax (Finlay, 1930)
    Width 58mm, Height 52mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Cape Palliser, south-eastern South Island, Snares and Campbell Island, and Auckland Islands, from 14-549m
  • Tawera rosa Powell, 1955
    Width 48mm, Height 42mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland Islands
  • Tawera sphaericula (Deshayes, 1853)
    Width 36mm, Height 35mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland Islands, from 25-27m
  • Tawera spissa (Deshayes, 1835)
    Width 34mm, Height 27mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Common on sandy beaches
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, from 0-1006m
  • Venerupis largillierti (Philippi, 1849)
    Width 75mm, Height 56mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Auckland, Campbell and Chatham Islands, from 0-450m
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