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Order Tryblidiida
Order Lepidopleurina
Order Ischnochitonina
Order Acanthochitonina
Order Neomeniomorpha
Order Docoglossa
Order Vetigastropoda
Order Cocculiniformia
Order Neritopsida
Order Architaenioglossa
Order Neotaenioglossa
Order Ptenoglossa
Order Neogastropoda
Order Heterostropha
Order Cephalaspidea
Order Anaspidea
Order Sacoglossa
Order Thecosomata
Order Gymnosomata
Order Notaspidea
Order Nudibranchia
Order Basommatophora
Order Dentaliida
Order Gadilida
Order Solemyoida
Order Nuculida
Order Nuculanida
Order Arcoida
Order Mytiloida
Order Pterioida
Order Pectinida
Order Limida
Order Unionoida
Order Lucinida
Order Carditida
Order Veneroida
Order Myoida
Order Pholadomyoida
Order Spirulida
Order Sepiolida
Order Myopsida
Order Oegopsida
Order Vampyromorpha
Order Octopoda

Last Updated on 19 May 2013
 
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 approxomation 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
    References  
 
Family: Mytilidae
Mytilidae: Mytilinae
 
Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus Lamarck, 1819 (=aoteanus Powell)
North, South, Stewart, Chatham, Auckland and Campbell Islands. A.C.F.M.An.
Blue Mussel
Length 120mm, Width 50mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.372)
Perna canaliculus (Gmelin, 1791)
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands A.C.F.
Green Mussel
Length 160mm, Width 75mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.372)
Mytilidae: Crenellinae
 
Crenella radians (Suter, 1908)
North Island. Three Kings Islands to Bay of Plenty A.
Width 4.2mm, Height 6mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.374)
 
Musculista senhousia Benson, 1842
Worldwide. Northland, New Zealand. Clustered in dense masses in muddy harbours A.
Length 31mm, Height 15mm
  • Willan, R.C. 1985: Successful establishment of the Asian mussel Musculista senhousia (Benson in Cantor, 1842) in New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 22: 85-96 (p.86)
  • Willan, R.C. 1987: The mussel Musculista senhousia in Australasia; another aggressive alien highlights the need for quarantine at ports. Bulletin of Marine Science 41: 475-489 (p.476)
Musculus impactus (Hermann, 1782)
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. In clumps under rocks below low tide A.C.F.M.
Length 45mm, Width 28mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.374)
 
North, South and Chatham Islands. Also Western Australia to New South Wales A.C.M.
Length 11mm, Width 5mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.373)
 
Mytilidae: Dacrydiinae
 
Dacrydium pelseneeri Hedley, 1906
Off Three Kings Islands, off Northland and off S.W.Otago A.F.
Width 1.5mm, Height 2.2mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.374)
 
Mytilidae: Lithophaginae
 
Zelithophaga truncata (Gray, 1843)
North and South Islands. Boring into soft rock A.C.F.
Length 50mm, Height 15mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.374)
Mytilidae: Modiolinae
 
Chatham Rise and Challenger Plateau. On whale bone from 1550-1100 metres C.M.
Length 27mm, Height 8mm
  • Dell, R. 1995: New species and records of deep-water Mollusca from off New Zealand. Tuhinga:  Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 2: 1-26. (p.4)
 
Adipicola osseocola (Dell, 1987)
North of Chatham Islands. On whale skull 880-882 metres M.
Length 24mm, Height 10mm
  • Dell, R.K. 1987: Mollusca of the family Mytilidae (Bivalvia) associated with organic remains from deep water off New Zealand, with revisions of the genera Adipicola Dautzenberg, 1927 and Idasola Iredale, 1915. National Museum of New Zealand Records 3: 17-36 (p.22)
Aulacomya maoriana (Iredale, 1915) (=ater Molina)
Lower North Island, South, Stewart, Chathams, Bounty, Auckland and Campbell Islands A.C.F.M.An.
Length 60mm, Width 30mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.372)
 
Bathymodiolus tangaroa Cosel & Marshall, 2003
Off SE North Island, from active submarine volcanoes around 920-1205 metres. Off Cape Turnagain C.
Length 200mm
  • Cosel, R. von; Marshall, B.A. 2003: Two new species of large mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from active submarine volcanoes and a cold seep off the eastern North Island of New Zealand, with description of a new genus. The Nautilus 117: 31-46 (p.31)
 
Off White Island. On bored log A.C.M.
  • Dell, R.K. 1987: Mollusca of the family Mytilidae (Bivalvia) associated with organic remains from deep water off New Zealand, with revisions of the genera Adipicola Dautzenberg, 1927 and Idasola Iredale, 1915. National Museum of New Zealand Records 3: 17-36 (p.33)
 
Gigantidas gladius Marshall, 2003
Southern Kermadec Ridge K.
Giant vent mussel
  • Cosel, R. von; Marshall, B.A. 2003: Two new species of large mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from active submarine volcanoes and a cold seep off the eastern North Island of New Zealand, with description of a new genus. The Nautilus 117: 31-46 (p.39)
 
Idas japonica (Habe, 1976)
A.
  • Dell, R.K. 1987: Mollusca of the family Mytilidae (Bivalvia) associated with organic remains from deep water off New Zealand, with revisions of the genera Adipicola Dautzenberg, 1927 and Idasola Iredale, 1915. National Museum of New Zealand Records 3: 17-36 (p.30)
 
Idas washingtoniana (Bernard, 1978)
A.C.M.
  • Dell, R.K. 1987: Mollusca of the family Mytilidae (Bivalvia) associated with organic remains from deep water off New Zealand, with revisions of the genera Adipicola Dautzenberg, 1927 and Idasola Iredale, 1915. National Museum of New Zealand Records 3: 17-36 (p.28)
 
Limnoperna pulex (Lamarck, 1819)
North, South and Stewart Island. Snares and Auckland Islands. Also Western Australia. On open coasts at low tide A.C.F.An.
Length 25mm, Height 12mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.373)
 
Limnoperna securis (Lamarck, 1819)
North, South and Chatham Islands. Also Western Australia to Queensland. Estuarine areas A.C.F.M.
Length 35mm, Height 17mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.373)
 
Modiolus areolatus (Gould, 1850)
North, South Stewart, Chatham, Bounty, Auckland and Campbell Islands A.C.F.M.An.
Length 70mm, Width 42mm
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.373)
 
Septifer cumingii Récluz, 1849 (=bryanae Pilsbry, =cf. bilocularis of authors)
North Island. Northland east coast K.A.
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p (p.372)
  • Brook, F.J.; Marshall, B.A. 1998: Appendix: Checklist of benthic coastal marine chitons, bivalves, gastropods and cephalopods of the northern Kermadec Islands. Pages 210-233 in Brook, F.J. 1998: The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28: 185-233. (p.211)
 
Vulcanidas insolatus Marshall, 2010
Kermadec Ridge. Macauley Cone, summit crater, 140-200 metres, summit of Giggenback volcano, 160 metres K.
Near active volcanic venting sites
Length 178mm, Width 92mm
  • Cosel, R. von; Marshall, B.A. 2010: A new genus and species of large mussel (Mollusca: Bivalvia:Mytilidae) from the Kermadec Ridge. Tuhinga 21: 59-73 (p.65)
 


 
 
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