New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Common bivalve larvae from New Zealand: Pteriacea, Anomiacea, Ostreacea

J. D. Booth*

Marine Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Among the common late-stage bivalve larvae occurring in plankton samples from the Bay of Islands (35°15'S, 174°10'E), Wellington Harbour (41°16'S, 174°51'E), and Raumati Beach (40°56'S, 174°58'E), New Zealand, during 1970-72 were two species provisionally identified as Atrina pectinata zelandica (Gray) (Pteriacea: Pinnidae) and Anomia trigonopsis Hutton (Anomiacea: Anomiidae). The seasonal occurrences of these larvae in the plankton, as well as those of Saccostrea glomerata (Gould) and an as yet unnamed Ostrea sp. (Ostreacea: Ostreidae), are described.

New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 1979, 13(1): 131-139.
Received 12 January 1978; revision received 10 October 1978

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