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Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Autobranchia (Subclass) > Heteroconchia (Infraclass) > Euhetrodonta (Subterclass) > Anomalodesmata (Superorder) > Myochamoidea (Superfamily) > Myochamidae (Family)
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  • Family: Myochamidae

  • Hunkydora novozelandica (Reeve, 1859)
    Width 30mm, Height 19mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island. In beach drift and dredged from around 5 to over 500 metres
    ACFE.
  • Hunkydora rakiura B.A. Marshall, 2002
    Width 5.2mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Stewart Island, Paterson Inlet
    FE.
  • Myadora antipodum E.A. Smith, 1880
    Width 14mm, Height 9mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Chatham Islands. Dredged from around 20-200 metres
    ACFME.
  • Myadora boltoni E.A. Smith, 1880
    Width 16mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Endemic, Almost smooth shell surface
    North and South Island, in fine silty sand
    ACR.Fo.E.
  • Myadora novaezelandiae E.A. Smith, 1880
    Width 10mm, Height 8mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands. Dredged from 45-180 metres
    ACFMAnE.
  • Myadora striata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
    Width 47mm, Height 38mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island. At low tide and shallow water
    ACFR.Fo.E.
  • Myadora subrostrata E.A. Smith, 1880
    Width 18mm, Height 14mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. From around 25-180 metres
    ACFME.
  • Myadoropsis wairua B.A. Marshall, 2002
    Width 5.1mm
    Marine, Endemic
    N of Three Kings Islands
    AE.
  • Myochama tasmanica (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
    Width 18mm, Height 15mm
    Marine
    Far North and Northland. East Otago, Fiordland to Stewart Island. Attached to bivalves. Also southern Tasmania
    AF
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