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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
    ACFMAn
  • Bassina yatei (Gray, 1835)
    Width 66mm, Height 50mm
    Frilled Venus Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island, northern and eastern South Island, and Stewart Island
    ACF
  • Dosina mactracea (Broderip, 1835)
    Width 70mm, Height 52mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Coarse ridges, and rust on surface
    North, South, Stewart, Auckland and Chatham Islands. From low tide to about 120 metres
    ACFMAn
  • Dosinia anus (Philippi, 1848)
    Width 82mm, Height 73mm
    Coarse Dosinia, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island
    ACF
  • Dosinia greyi Zittel, 1865
    Width 50mm, Height 46mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Coarse sculpture
    North, South and Stewart Islands, and Mernoo Bank. Dredged in soft mud around 10-50 metres
    AC
  • Dosinia lambata (Gould, 1850)
    Width 40mm, Height 35mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Very fine smooth sculpture. Found on sheltered sandy beaches
    North Island, and South Island as far south as Dunedin
    ACF
  • 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
    ACM
  • Dosinia subrosea (Gray, 1835)
    Width 75mm, Height 71mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Islands
    ACF
  • Globivenus toreuma (Gould, 1850)
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • 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
    A
  • Irus elegans (Deshayes, 1854)
    Length 60mm, Height 36mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Burrows in soft rock
    North Island and eastern South Island
    ACF
  • 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
    ACFM
  • Leukoma crassicosta (Deshayes, 1835)
    Width 60mm, Height 48mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Intertidal and immediate sublittoral
    ACFM
  • 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. Dredged around 10-180 metres
    ACFAn
  • Tawera marionae Finlay, 1928
    Width 33mm, Height 28mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island and Chatham Islands
    FM
  • Tawera mawsoni (Hedley, 1916)
    Width 40mm, Height 32mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Macquarie Island
    An
  • 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. Dredged around 15-550 metres
    CFAn
  • Tawera rosa Powell, 1955
    Width 48mm, Height 42mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Finer sculpture than T. sphaericula, and less inflated
    Auckland Islands
    An
  • Tawera sphaericula (Deshayes, 1853)
    Width 36mm, Height 35mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Coarse concentric ridges. Bluntly rounded beaks, very thick and solid
    Auckland Islands, dredged 15-65 metres
    An
  • Tawera spissa (Deshayes, 1835)
    Width 34mm, Height 27mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Common on sandy beaches. Highly variable patterns, usually zigzags or streaks
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
    ACFM
  • Venerupis largillierti (Philippi, 1849)
    Width 75mm, Height 56mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Auckland, Campbell and Chatham Islands
    ACFMAn
Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing 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