Gari stangeri
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Cardiida |
Superfamily: | Tellinoidea |
Family: | Psammobiidae |
Genus: | Gari |
Species: | G. stangeri
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Binomial name | |
Gari stangeri (Gray, 1843)
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Gari stangeri, or the purple sunset shell, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Psammobiidae. It was first described by John Edward Gray using specimens collected by William Stanger.[1]
References
- ^ John Edward Gray (1843). "Catalogue of the species of Mollusca and their shells, which have hitherto been recorded as found at New Zealand, with the description of some lately discovered species". Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country. 2: 253. Wikidata Q105735171.
- 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