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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NUCULANIDAE: NUCULANINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculanida (Order)
> Nuculanoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculanidae (Family)
> Nuculaninae (Subfamily)
> Saccella (Genus)
> maxwelli (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Ledina Sacco, 1898
=Nuculana (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Nuculana (Saccella) maxwelli (Beu, 2006)
=Nuculana maxwelli (Beu, 2006)
=Saccella bellula of authors not Adams
Images: Saccella maxwelli Beu, 2006
Dredged 18 fathoms, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 9mm. © rights reserved
Dredged 18 fathoms, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 9mm. © rights reserved
Collected 9 Mar 1976, off shelf of flats inside Farewell Spit, Golden Bay, NZ (M.180819). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected 9 Mar 1976, off shelf of flats inside Farewell Spit, Golden Bay, NZ (M.180819). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
NUCULANIDAE: NUCULANINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Protobranchia (Subclass)
> Nuculanida (Order)
> Nuculanoidea (Superfamily)
> Nuculanidae (Family)
> Nuculaninae (Subfamily)
> Saccella (Genus)
> maxwelli (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Ledina Sacco, 1898
=Nuculana (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
=Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929
Synonymised Names:
=Nuculana (Saccella) maxwelli (Beu, 2006)
=Nuculana maxwelli (Beu, 2006)
=Saccella bellula of authors not Adams
Details: Saccella maxwelli Beu, 2006
Size/Grows to:
Length 10mm, Height 5.2mm, Thickness 4mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart, Auckland and Chatham Islands, from 15-530m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Beu, A.G. 2006 Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 2. Biostratigraphically useful and new Pliocene to Recent bivalves, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 36 (p.151) Original Description
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.359)

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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