Crassula aequilatera, known as the triangle shell, is a surf clam, a moderately large marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mactridae. [1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Venerida |
| Superfamily: | Mactroidea |
| Family: | Mactridae |
| Genus: | Crassula |
| Species: | C. aequilatera
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| Crassula aequilatera (Reeve, 1854)
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Distribution
editThis marine species is endemic to New Zealand.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Crassula aequilatera (Reeve, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505655 on 2022-06-20
- Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
- Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
External links
edit- Reeve, L. A. (1854). Monograph of the genus Mactra. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 8, pl. 1-21 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
- Deshayes, G. P. (1854). Descriptions of fourteen new species of Mactra, in the collection of Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1853) 21: 14-17
- Beu A.G. (2004) Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265