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Taxonomy
Family:
NEOLEPTONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Venerida (Order)
> Veneroidea (Superfamily)
> Neoleptonidae (Family)
> Pachykellya (Genus)
> edwardsi (Species)
Images: Pachykellya edwardsi F. Bernard, 1897
Collected Dec 1954, off Big South Cape Island, Stewart Island, NZ (M.019059). 1.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Dec 1954, off Big South Cape Island, Stewart Island, NZ (M.019059). 1.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Dec 1954, off Big South Cape Island, Stewart Island, NZ (M.019059). 1.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
NEOLEPTONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Venerida (Order)
> Veneroidea (Superfamily)
> Neoleptonidae (Family)
> Pachykellya (Genus)
> edwardsi (Species)
Details: Pachykellya edwardsi F. Bernard, 1897
Size/Grows to:
Height 1.5mm, Width 1.2mm
Distribution:
Southern South Island, Stewart Island and Snares Islands, from 0-91m
Type Data:
  • 64 metres, off Stewart Island, 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.404)

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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