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What

Smooth Dosinia (Dosinia subrosea)

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shona_t

Date

September 2, 2016

Description

38 x 36

3) outside D. anus on left, D. subrosea on right (finer rings, smoother surface)
4) inside D. subrosea on left, D. anus on right

may have seen D.subrosea once before here
D. anus common here. Specimen in 3) and 4) was picked up within 2m of the D. subrosea

Recorded on Banks Peninsula:-
"The third community inhabited shallower depths at Little Akaloa and deeper sediments at Otanerito (O4) and Te Oka (T3-4). Cluster 5 taxa, notably the burrowing bivalves Dosinia subrosea, Mactra ordinaria, Nucula nitidula, characterised this community, "
http://ecan.govt.nz/publications/Reports/marine-benthic-infauna-three-bays-banks-peninsula.pdf

Listed in APPENDIX 1: Taonga List, species that are important to Ngāi Tahu present at least occasionally in Christchurch and Banks Peninsula. https://www.ccc.govt.nz/assets/Documents/The-Council/Plans-Strategies-Policies-Bylaws/Strategies/BiodiversityStrategy-6AppendicesReferences.pdf

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