New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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DISTRIBUTION OF DIVARICELLA HUTTONIANA (MOLLUSCA: BIVALVIA: LUCINIDAE) IN THE NEW ZEALAND REGION

Penelope A. Luckens

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract The distribution of samples containing the lucinid Divaricella (Divalucina) huttoniana (Vanatta) from the continental shelf of the North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands (New Zealand) in the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute collection is discussed in relation to published records and museum collections. The paucity of living specimens and large shells in shelf samples contrasts with beach collections, and is partly related to sampling problems close inshore off sandy beaches. Southern distributional limits are probably related to winter temperatures on the sea floor.

N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 6 (3): 259-76
(Received for publication 14 January 1971)

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