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Taxonomy
Family:
THRACIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Thracioidea (Superfamily)
> Thraciidae (Family)
> Thracia (Genus)
> vitrea (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Odoncineta O.G. Costa, 1830
=Thracia (Crassithracia) Soot-Ryen, 1941 accepted, alternate representation
=Thracia (Odoncineta) O.G. Costa, 1830 accepted, alternate representation
=Thracia (Thracia) Blainville, 1824 accepted, alternate representation
Synonymised Names:
=Lyonsia vitrea Hutton, 1873
Images: Thracia vitrea (Hutton, 1873)
Collected Kau Point, Wellington Harbour, NZ (M.062798). 25mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Kau Point, Wellington Harbour, NZ (M.062798). 25mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Kau Point, Wellington Harbour, NZ (M.062798). 25mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Kau Point, Wellington Harbour, NZ (M.062798). 25mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
THRACIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Thracioidea (Superfamily)
> Thraciidae (Family)
> Thracia (Genus)
> vitrea (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Odoncineta O.G. Costa, 1830
=Thracia (Crassithracia) Soot-Ryen, 1941 accepted, alternate representation
=Thracia (Odoncineta) O.G. Costa, 1830 accepted, alternate representation
=Thracia (Thracia) Blainville, 1824 accepted, alternate representation
Synonymised Names:
=Lyonsia vitrea Hutton, 1873
Details: Thracia vitrea (Hutton, 1873)
Size/Grows to:
Width 25mm, Height 17mm
Distribution:
North-eastern and south-western North Island, northern and eastern South Island, and Stewart Island, from 7-132m
Type Data:
  • Wellington Harbour, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 2002 Some Recent Thraciidae, Periplomatidae, Myochamidae, Cuspidariidae and Spheniopsidae (Anomalodesmata) from the New Zealand region and referral of Thracia reinga Crozier, 1966 and Scintillona benthicola Dell, 1956 to Tellimya Brown, 1827 (Montacutidae) (Mollusca : Bivalvia), Molluscan Research, 22 (p.223)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1873 Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species, Dominion Museum (NZ) 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
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