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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDITIDAE: MIODOMERIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Carditidae (Family)
> Miodomeridinae (Subfamily)
> Pleuromeris (Genus)
> marshalli (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Venericardia (Pleuromeris) Conrad, 1867
Synonymised Names:
=Venericardia (Pleuromeris) marshalli Marwick, 1924
=Venericardia marshalli Marwick, 1924
Images: Pleuromeris marshalli (Marwick, 1924)
Collected Feb 1977, off west side Goat Island, Leigh, Northland, NZ (M.148896). 4mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Jul 1974, oyster beds off Ruapuke Island, Foveaux Strait, NZ (M.071889). 3.8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDITIDAE: MIODOMERIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Heterodonta (Subclass)
> Archiheterodonta (Infraclass)
> Carditida (Order)
> Carditoidea (Superfamily)
> Carditidae (Family)
> Miodomeridinae (Subfamily)
> Pleuromeris (Genus)
> marshalli (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Venericardia (Pleuromeris) Conrad, 1867
Synonymised Names:
=Venericardia (Pleuromeris) marshalli Marwick, 1924
=Venericardia marshalli Marwick, 1924
Details: Pleuromeris marshalli (Marwick, 1924)
Size/Grows to:
Height 6.5mm, Width 6mm
Distribution:
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, and South, Stewart, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank., from 8-805m
Type Data:
  • 240 metres, E of Forty Fours, Chatham Islands, NZ, (paratype)
  • 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.407)

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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