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Taxonomy
Family:
THRACIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Thracioidea (Superfamily)
> Thraciidae (Family)
> Parvithracia (Genus)
> ampla (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Parvithracia (Parvithracia) Finlay, 1926 accepted, alternate representation
=Parvithracia (Pseudoasthenothaerus) Kamenev, 2002 accepted, alternate representation
Images: Parvithracia ampla B.A. Marshall, 2002
Holotype, collected 16 Jan 1954, Saunders Canyon, off Otago Head, NZ (M.009125). 3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 16 Jan 1954, Saunders Canyon, off Otago Head, NZ (M.009125). 3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
THRACIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Thracioidea (Superfamily)
> Thraciidae (Family)
> Parvithracia (Genus)
> ampla (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Parvithracia (Parvithracia) Finlay, 1926 accepted, alternate representation
=Parvithracia (Pseudoasthenothaerus) Kamenev, 2002 accepted, alternate representation
Details: Parvithracia ampla B.A. Marshall, 2002
Size/Grows to:
Width 3mm, Height 2.5mm
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands, North, South Islands and Chatham Rise. Trawled around 35-1000 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFME.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
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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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