Dosinia lambata
Appearance
Dosinia lambata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Venerida |
Superfamily: | Veneroidea |
Family: | Veneridae |
Genus: | Dosinia |
Species: | D. lambata
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Binomial name | |
Dosinia lambata (Gould, 1850)
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Dosinia lambata, or the silky dosinia, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Veneridae, endemic to New Zealand.[1][2] It lives in depths of up to 60 metres (about 200 feet) and can grow to be 28 millimetres wide.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ^ Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8
- ^ Poortman, Peter. "New Zealand Shells: Marine Bivalves". www.nzshells.net.nz. Retrieved 30 January 2018.