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Taxonomy
Family:
PULVINITIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Ostreida (Order)
> Pterioidea (Superfamily)
> Pulvinitidae (Family)
> Pulvinites (Genus)
> exempla (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Foramelina Hedley, 1914
Synonymised Names:
=Foramelina exempla Hedley, 1914
Images: Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914)
Dredged on oblique rock surfaces, in 500-600 m, off Southern NZ. Image: K. Walton, rights reserved
Dredged on oblique rock surfaces, in 500-600 m, off Southern NZ. Image: K. Walton, rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
PULVINITIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Ostreida (Order)
> Pterioidea (Superfamily)
> Pulvinitidae (Family)
> Pulvinites (Genus)
> exempla (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Foramelina Hedley, 1914
Synonymised Names:
=Foramelina exempla Hedley, 1914
Details: Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914)
Size/Grows to:
Width 130mm
Distribution:
North of North Cape, Ranfurly Bank and south-western South Island, NZ. Attached to rock. Also south-eastern Australia and Lord Howe Rise, from 148-710m
Type Data:
  • 180-475 metres, S of Gabo Island, Victoria, Australia, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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References and Publications
  • Tëmkin, I. 2006 Anatomy, shell morphology, and microstructure of the living fossil Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pulvinitidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 148 (p.523)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1998 Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914) from the New Zealand region (Bivalvia: Pulvinitidae), The Nautilus, 112(4) (p.101)

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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