Venerupis largillierti
| Venerupis largillierti | |
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| V. largillierti in Picton, New Zealand | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Venerida |
| Family: | Veneridae |
| Genus: | Venerupis |
| Species: | V. largillierti
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| Binomial name | |
| Venerupis largillierti Rudolf Amandus Philippi, 1849
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Venerupis largillierti is a species of marine mollusc, endemic to New Zealand.[1] It is found on all of the main islands and their outlying islets, as well as the Chatham Islands. It was originally described in the genus Venus.[2] It has been found in Tasmania, where it has been introduced.[3] The bivalve is part of a national fishery in Tasmania.[4][5] Some prehistoric archaeological deposits in midden heaps on Enderby Island in the Auckland Islands show that this species was used as a food source, before the site was abandoned in the 14th century.[6]
Description
V. largillierti is yellow-brown[3] or red-white and ferruginous apically.[7] It has coarse ridges on the outer shell, which become coarser apically. When young it has zigzag patterns on the ridges.
References
- ^ "NZ Mollusca - Venerupis largillierti". www.mollusca.co.nz. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Venerupis largillierti (R. A. Philippi, 1847)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ^ a b "Species". National Introduced Marine Pest Information System. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ^ Jones, H.; Gardner, Caleb (1 January 2016). Small bivalve survey, assessment and stock status update: 2016. Ostrea angasi - Georges Bay Venerupis largillierti - Northern Zone, Georges Bay (Report). University of Tasmania.
- ^ Kent, Greg N.; Maguire, Greg B.; Duthie, Ian; Pugh, Richard (March 1999). "Spawning, settlement, and growth of the New Zealand veneridRuditapes largillierti(Philippi 1849) in culture". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 33 (1): 55–62. Bibcode:1999NZJMF..33...55K. doi:10.1080/00288330.1999.9516856. ISSN 0028-8330.
- ^ Anderson, Atholl; Becerra-Valdivia, Lorena; Cadd, Haidee; Marjo, Christopher E.; Palmer, Jonathan; Turney, Chris; Wilmshurst, Janet M. (October 2024). "The age and position of the southern boundary of prehistoric Polynesian dispersal". Archaeology in Oceania. 59 (3): 479–494. doi:10.1002/arco.5337. ISSN 0728-4896.
- ^ Menke, Karl Theodor; Pfeiffer, Louis (1844). Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. Vol. jahrg 1 - 5 (1844-48). Hannover: Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung.