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Taxonomy
Family:
GALEOMMATIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Galeommatida (Order)
> Galeommatoidea (Superfamily)
> Galeommatidae (Family)
> Divariscintilla (Genus)
> maoria (Species)
Images: Divariscintilla maoria Powell, 1932
Collected Whangamata, Coromandel, NZ. 5.7mm
Taxonomy
Family:
GALEOMMATIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Galeommatida (Order)
> Galeommatoidea (Superfamily)
> Galeommatidae (Family)
> Divariscintilla (Genus)
> maoria (Species)
Details: Divariscintilla maoria Powell, 1932
Size/Grows to:
Width 7mm, Height 4mm
Distribution:
North Island and northern part of South Island. Also recently recorded from the Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
ACME.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic, Low tide, attached to walls of burrows of mantis shrimp Heterosquilla tricarinata.
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Walton, K. Nov/2015 New records of intertidal and shallow sub-tidal (to 30 m) Mollusca from the Chatham Islands, Cookia, 27 (p.2)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.398)
  • Dec/1975 Divariscintilla maoria, Poirieria, 8(2)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1932 On some New Zealand pelecypods, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 20 (p.66) Original Description

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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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