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Taxonomy
Family:
NUCULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculida (Order)
> Nuculoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculidae (Family)
> Pronucula (Genus)
> tenuis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Nucula (Pronucula) Hedley, 1902
Synonymised Names:
=Nucula (Pronucula) tenuis (Powell, 1927)
=Nucula tenuis (Powell, 1927)
Images: Pronucula tenuis Powell, 1927
Collected 16 Feb 1987, Doubtful Sound, Fiordland, NZ (M.139614). 1.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
NUCULIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculida (Order)
> Nuculoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculidae (Family)
> Pronucula (Genus)
> tenuis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Nucula (Pronucula) Hedley, 1902
Synonymised Names:
=Nucula (Pronucula) tenuis (Powell, 1927)
=Nucula tenuis (Powell, 1927)
Details: Pronucula tenuis Powell, 1927
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.5mm, Thickness 0.8mm, Height 1mm
Distribution:
North-eastern and southern North Island, southern South Island and Stewart Island, from 9-530m
Type Data:
  • 180 metres, off Puysegur Point, Southland, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.358)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1927 Deep-water Mollusca from south-west Otago, with descriptions of 2 new genera and 22 new species., Records of the Canterbury Museum, 3 (p.119) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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