Chione aucklandica
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| Chione aucklandica Powell, 1932 |
Chione aucklandica, or the Auckland Islands cockle, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Tellinidae, endemic to New Zealand. It is found only at the Auckland Islands, common in intertidal mudflats.
The shell is solid and ovate-quadrate, and less inflated than the similar New Zealand cockle, its sculpture also differing, the radials being more numerous and without concentric lamellae. Coloration is chocholate-brown externally, and creamy-white internally, with or without posterior and ventral violet staining.
Length is up to 63 mm, and height 53 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
