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Taxonomy
Family:
ARCIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Arcida (Order)
> Arcoidea (Superfamily)
> Arcidae (Family)
> Barbatia (Genus)
> novaezealandiae (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Arca (Barbatia) Gray, 1842
Synonymised Names:
=Arca (Barbatia) novaezelandiae E.A. Smith, 1915
=Arca novaezealandiae E.A. Smith, 1915
Images: Barbatia novaezealandiae (E.A. Smith, 1915)
Bay of Islands, Northland. 54mm. © rights reserved
Found on under sides of stones at low tide to over 50 fathoms. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
ARCIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Arcida (Order)
> Arcoidea (Superfamily)
> Arcidae (Family)
> Barbatia (Genus)
> novaezealandiae (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Arca (Barbatia) Gray, 1842
Synonymised Names:
=Arca (Barbatia) novaezelandiae E.A. Smith, 1915
=Arca novaezealandiae E.A. Smith, 1915
Details: Barbatia novaezealandiae (E.A. Smith, 1915)
Size/Grows to:
Length 78mm, Height 42mm
Distribution:
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, North Island, far northern and southern South Island, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands. Under stones from low tide, from 0-508m
Notes:
Ark Shell, 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.364)
  • Smith, E.A. 1915 Mollusca. Part I. - Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Scaphopoda and Pelecypoda, British Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition, Natural History Reports (Zoology), 2 (p.88) 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