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Taxonomy
Family:
MYOCHAMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Myochamoidea (Superfamily)
> Myochamidae (Family)
> Hunkydora (Genus)
> novozelandica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Thracia novozelandica Reeve, 1859
=Thracia transenna Suter, 1913
Images: Hunkydora novozelandica (Reeve, 1859)
Dredged, Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. ~28mm. © Cookia, Journal of the Wellington Shell Club/Kerry Walton
Collected Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Islan, Auckland, NZ (MA53518). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Collected Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Islan, Auckland, NZ (MA53518). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family:
MYOCHAMIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Anomalodesmata (Superorder)
> Myochamoidea (Superfamily)
> Myochamidae (Family)
> Hunkydora (Genus)
> novozelandica (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Thracia novozelandica Reeve, 1859
=Thracia transenna Suter, 1913
Details: Hunkydora novozelandica (Reeve, 1859)
Size/Grows to:
Width 30mm, Height 19mm
Distribution:
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and northern and south-western North Island, South and Stewart Islands, from 0-549m
Type Data:
  • Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, NZ, (lectotype)
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.250)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.433)

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