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  • Order: Venerida

  • Chama croceata Lamarck, 1819
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Chama sp.
    Width 15mm
    Marine
    Te Araroa, East Cape, washed up on pumice
    A
  • Lutraria bruuni Powell, 1967
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Kermadec Islands
    KE.
  • Crassula aequilatera (Deshayes, 1854)
    Width 75mm, Height 55mm
    Diamond Surf Clam, Triangle Shell, Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island. In shallow water off sandy beaches
    ACFE.
  • Cyclomactra ovata (Gray, 1843)
    Width 80mm, Height 62mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Chatham Islands. Buried deeply in soft mud
    ACFME.
  • Cyclomactra tristis (Reeve, 1854)
    Width 60mm, Height 55mm
    Marine, Endemic, Buried in mud at low tide
    North and South Islands
    ACFE.
  • Mactra ordinaria E.A. Smith, 1898
    Width 19mm, Height 12mm
    Marine, Endemic, Sculpture of very fine and dense concentric lirations, slightly stronger at the sides. Distinguished from juvenile discors by the lack of a posterior ridge
    North Island and northern half of South Island. In mud in shallow water
    ACE.
  • Oxyperas bellianum (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
    Marine, Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    KE.
  • Oxyperas elongatum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
    Length 111mm, Width 65mm
    Long Trough Shell, Marine, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Shallow water to over 120 metres
    ACFME.
  • Scalpomactra scalpellum (Reeve, 1854)
    Length 34mm, Height 20mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
    ACFE.
  • Spisula discors Gray, 1873
    Width 90mm, Height 80mm, Thickness 45mm
    Large Trough Shell, Marine, Endemic, Darker, more inflated than Mactra murchisoni. Colour white under a dark brown periostracum
    North, South and Stewart Island
    ACFE.
  • Spisula murchisoni Deshayes, 1854
    Width 98mm, Height 80mm
    Marine, Endemic, Wider, less inflated than Mactra discors. More laterally ovate, inequilateral, has transverse plications on the lateral teeth, and the periostracum is always pale straw colour
    North, South and Stewart Island. On exposed sandy beaches
    ACFE.
  • Resania lanceolata Gray, 1852
    Length 120mm, Height 57mm
    Lance Mactra, Marine, Endemic
    North and South Islands. Off sandy ocean beaches in shallow water
    ACFE.
  • Zenatia acinaces (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
    Length 117mm, Height 54mm
    Scimitar Mactra, Marine, Endemic
    North and South Islands. Off sandy beaches in shallow water to about 50 metres
    ACFE.
  • Paphies australis (Gmelin, 1791)
    Length 95mm, Height 59mm
    Pipi, Marine, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart Chatham and Auckland Islands. Buried in silty sand in sheltered areas
    ACFMAnE.
  • Paphies donacina (Spengler, 1793)
    Length 127mm, Height 98mm
    Southern Tuatua, Marine, Endemic
    Lower North Island, South and Stewart Islands. More common in south
    CFE.
  • Paphies subtriangulata (Gray in Wood, 1828)
    Length 98mm, Height 69mm
    Tuatua, Marine, Endemic
    North, upper South Island and Chatham Islands
    ACFME.
  • Paphies ventricosa (Gray, 1843)
    Length 149mm, Height 91mm. with records over 165mm
    Toheroa, Marine, Endemic
    North and South Islands
    ACFE.
  • Zemysia rakiura Powell, 1939
    Width 11mm, Height 9mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Lower South Island, Stewart, Chatham and southern Islands
    FMAnE.
  • Zemysia sp. aff. rakiura Powell, 1939
    Marine, Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    KE.
  • Zemysia zelandica (Gray, 1835)
    Width 27mm, Height 25mm
    Marine
    North, South and Chatham Islands. From shallow water to about 90 metres
    ACFM
  • Zemysina globus (Finlay, 1926)
    Width 28mm, Height 26mm, Thickness 20mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart, Bounty, Auckland and Chatham Islands. In shallow water to about 90 metres
    ACFMAnE.
  • Zemysina striatula (Finlay, 1926)
    Width 19mm, Height 17mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Chatham Islands. From low tide to over 75 metres
    ACME.
  • Vesicomya bruuni Filatova, 1969
    Height 7.2mm, Width 6.6mm
    Marine
    Northern NZ, Kermadec Trench 5900-9200 metres
    KA
  • Vesicomya tasmanensis (Knudsen, 1970)
    Width 6.2mm, Height 5.3mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Tasman Sea, 4400 metres
    FE.
  • Austrovenus stutchburyi (W. Wood, 1828)
    Width 60mm, Height 54mm. with records over 80mm
    Cockle, Marine, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
    ACFMAnE.
  • Bassina yatei (Gray, 1835)
    Width 66mm, Height 50mm
    Frilled Venus Shell, Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island
    ACFE.
  • Dosina mactracea (Broderip in Broderip & G.B. Sowerby, 1835)
    Width 70mm, Height 52mm
    Marine, Endemic, Coarse ridges, and rust on surface
    North and South Island. From low tide to about 120 metres
    ACFE.
  • Dosinia anus (Philippi, 1848)
    Width 82mm, Height 73mm
    Coarse Dosinia, Marine, Endemic
    North Island and northern part of South Island
    ACE.
  • Dosinia greyi Zittel, 1865
    Width 50mm, Height 46mm
    Marine, Endemic, Coarse sculpture
    North Island and northern part of South Island. Dredged in soft mud around 10-15 metres
    ACE.
  • Dosinia lambata (Gould, 1850)
    Width 40mm, Height 35mm
    Marine, Endemic, Very fine smooth sculpture. Found on sheltered sandy beaches
    North Island and northern part of South Island
    ACFE.
  • Dosinia maoriana W.R.B. Oliver, 1923
    Width 46mm, Height 43mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, northern part of South Island and Chatham Islands
    ACME.
  • Dosinia subrosea (Gray, 1835)
    Width 75mm, Height 71mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North Island to Cook Strait
    ACE.
  • Globivenus toreuma (Gould, 1850)
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Gomphina maorum (E.A. Smith, 1902)
    Width 19mm, Height 16mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Three Kings Islands. Far North and Northland east coast. In beach drift
    AE.
  • Irus elegans (Deshayes, 1854)
    Length 60mm, Height 36mm
    Marine, Endemic, Burrows in soft rock
    North and South Island
    ACFE.
  • Irus reflexus (Gray, 1843)
    Length 31mm, Height 24mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South Stewart and Chatham Islands. In holes in soft rock
    ACFME.
  • Leukoma crassicosta (Deshayes, 1835)
    Width 60mm, Height 48mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
    ACFME.
  • Notocallista multistriata (Sowerby, 1851)
    Width 30mm, Height 22mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island. Dredged around 10-180 metres
    ACFE.
  • Pitar sp. cf. affinis (Gmelin, 1791)
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Tawera marionae Finlay, 1928
    Width 33mm, Height 28mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Otago and Chatham Islands
    FME.
  • Tawera mawsoni (Hedley, 1916)
    Width 40mm, Height 32mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Macquarie Island
    AnE.
  • Tawera phenax (Finlay, 1930)
    Width 58mm, Height 52mm
    Marine, Endemic
    South Island, off Taiaroa Head, Otago. Snares and Auckland Islands. Dredged around 90-100 metres
    FAnE.
  • Tawera rosa Powell, 1955
    Width 48mm, Height 42mm
    Marine, Endemic, Finer sculpture than T. sphaericula, and less inflated
    Auckland Islands
    AnE.
  • Tawera sphaericula (Deshayes, 1853)
    Width 36mm, Height 35mm
    Marine, Endemic, Coarse concentric ridges. Bluntly rounded beaks, very thick and solid
    Auckland Islands, dredged 15-65 metres
    AnE.
  • Tawera spissa (Deshayes, 1835)
    Width 34mm, Height 27mm
    Marine, 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, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart, Chathams, Auckland and Campbell Islands
    ACFMAnE.
  • Neolepton antipodum (Filhol, 1880)
    Width 3.6mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil
    North, South, Stewart, Chatham Islands, and southern islands, recorded from the intertidal zone (living on Corallina) down to at least 310m
    KACFMAnR.Fo.
  • Neolepton powelli Dell, 1964
    Width 3.2mm, Height 2.7mm
    Marine
    Macquarie Island, 120 metres
    An
  • Neolepton sublaevigatum (Powell, 1937)
    Width 2.8mm, Height 2.3mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 260 metres
    ACFME.
  • Neolepton subobliquum (Powell, 1937)
    Width 2mm, Height 1.9mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 260 metres
    AE.
  • Neolepton triangulare (Dell, 1956)
    Width 2.6mm, Height 2.3mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Chatham Rise and off Chatham Islands
    ME.
  • Pachykellya bernardi Powell, 1927
    Width 1.2mm, Height 1.4mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Endemic
    Fiordland
    FR.Fo.E.
  • Pachykellya concentrica Powell, 1927
    Width 1mm, Height 0.8mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Endemic
    Off Puysegur Point, Fiordland, Chatham and Auckland Islands
    FMAnR.Fo.E.
  • Pachykellya edwardsi F. Bernard, 1897
    Height 1.5mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Stewart Island and Otago to Fiordland
    FE.
  • Pachykellya minima Powell, 1931
    Width 0.9mm, Height 0.8mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart, Chatham and southern Islands
    ACFMAnE.
  • Pachykellya rotunda Powell, 1927
    Width 1.5mm, Height 1.2mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Endemic
    Off Puysegur Point, Fiordland. Off Snares Island
    FAnR.Fo.E.
  • Puyseguria cuneata Powell, 1927
    Width 1.7mm, Height 1.3mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Endemic
    Off Puysegur Point, Fiordland to Stewart Island
    FR.Fo.E.
  • Puyseguria prognata Powell, 1927
    Width 1.3mm, Height 1.3mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Puysegur Point, Fiordland
    FE.
  • Puyseguria tani Powell, 1939
    Width 1.3mm, Height 1.2mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Endemic
    Stewart Island. In shell sand
    FR.Fo.E.
  • Puyseguria wanganuica Powell, 1931
    Height 1.2mm, Width 0.8mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Endemic
    R.Fo.E.
  • Corbicula sp.
    Brackish, Freshwater, Introduced
    Waikato River, Karapiro to Hamilton
    Fw.N.I.
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