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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDIIDAE: LAEVICARDIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Cardioidea (Superfamily)
> Cardiidae (Family)
> Laevicardiinae (Subfamily)
> Nemocardium (Genus)
> enigmaticum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cardium (Nemocardium) Meek, 1876
=Nemocardium (Nemocardium) Meek, 1876
=Nemocardium (Varicardium) Marwick, 1944
=Varicardium Marwick, 1944
Synonymised Names:
=Nemocardium probatum Powell not Iredale
=Nemocardium bechei of authors not Reeve
Images: Nemocardium enigmaticum ter Poorten, 2013
Holotype, collected 24 Aug 1972, off Hutchinson Bluff, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands (M.222017). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 24 Aug 1972, off Hutchinson Bluff, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands (M.222017). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CARDIIDAE: LAEVICARDIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Cardiida (Order)
> Cardioidea (Superfamily)
> Cardiidae (Family)
> Laevicardiinae (Subfamily)
> Nemocardium (Genus)
> enigmaticum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Cardium (Nemocardium) Meek, 1876
=Nemocardium (Nemocardium) Meek, 1876
=Nemocardium (Varicardium) Marwick, 1944
=Varicardium Marwick, 1944
Synonymised Names:
=Nemocardium probatum Powell not Iredale
=Nemocardium bechei of authors not Reeve
Details: Nemocardium enigmaticum ter Poorten, 2013
Size/Grows to:
Height 68mm
Distribution:
Islands east of Australia: Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Ridge, Chesterfield-Bellona Plateau, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands and the Kermadec Islands, from 100-146m
Type Data:
  • 135 metres, NW of Fleetwood Bluff, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ, (paratype)
  • 84-115 metres, off Hutchison Bluff, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ, (holotype)
  • 140-170 metres, SE of Nugent Island, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ, (paratype)
  • 30 metres, N side Lord Howe Island, Australia, (paratype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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References and Publications
  • ter Poorten, J.J. 2013 Revision of the Recent species of the genus Nemocardium Meek, 1876 (Bivalvia, Cardiidae), with the descriptions of three new species, Basteria, 77 (p.64) Original Description
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1958 Mollusca of the Kermadec Islands. Part 1, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 5(1) (p.75)

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