Dosinia anus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Venerida
- Family
- Veneridae
- Genus
- Dosinia
- Species
- Dosinia anus
- Scientific Name
- Dosinia anus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dosinia anus
Dosinia anus, commonly named the ringed dosinia, coarse dosinia, coarse biscuit shell and tuangi-haruru, in the Māori language, is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae, the venus clams. The species is common to both of the main islands of New Zealand, where it is the largest and heaviest species in the genus, occasionally exceeding 80 mm in diameter. It buries itself in clean fine sandy substrata, sub-tidally down to 15 m deep.
An investigation into a potential surf clam fishery found this species to be the most abundant 'surf clam' (an informal grouping based on habitat) in the North Island, being replaced by members of the Mactridae in more southerly latitudes.
...Dosinia anus in languages:
- Czech
- dosínka vrásčitá
- English
- Coarse Dosinia
- English
- old-woman dosinia
- Māori
- Tuaki
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Dosinia abyssicola
- Dosinia adami
- Dosinia afra
- Dosinia altior
- Dosinia amamiensis
- Dosinia angulosa
- Dosinia anus
- Dosinia areolata
- Dosinia aspera
- Dosinia auberti
- Dosinia bilunulata
- Dosinia biscocta
- Dosinia caelata
- Dosinia caerulea
- Dosinia carpentariana
- Dosinia cingulifera
- Dosinia circularis
- Dosinia concentrica
- Dosinia conglobata
- Dosinia contracta
- Dosinia corrugata
- Dosinia cretacea
- Dosinia crocea
- Dosinia cumingii
- Dosinia cunninghami
- Dosinia dautzenbergi
- Dosinia deshayesii
- Dosinia dilecta
- Dosinia discus
- Dosinia dunkeri
- Dosinia eduardi
- Dosinia erythraea
- Dosinia exasperata
- Dosinia exoleta
- Dosinia extranea
- Dosinia fibula
- Dosinia funiculata
- Dosinia gabonensis
- Dosinia gaillardi
- Dosinia glauca
- Dosinia grata
- Dosinia greyi
- Dosinia gruneri
- Dosinia hayashii
- Dosinia hepatica
- Dosinia herbariorum
- Dosinia histrio
- Dosinia incisa
- Dosinia indica
- Dosinia iwakawai
- Dosinia japonica
- Dosinia kaspiewi
- Dosinia kuiperi
- Dosinia labiosa
- Dosinia lambata
- Dosinia lamyi
- Dosinia levissima
- Dosinia lochi
- Dosinia lucinalis
- Dosinia luedersii
- Dosinia lupinus
- Dosinia malecocta
- Dosinia maoriana
- Dosinia minor
- Dosinia mira
- Dosinia nedigna
- Dosinia nipponica
- Dosinia orbiculata
- Dosinia orbignyi
- Dosinia penicillata
- Dosinia physema
- Dosinia ponderosa
- Dosinia powelli
- Dosinia prostrata
- Dosinia pubescens
- Dosinia queenslandica
- Dosinia sanata
- Dosinia scabriuscula
- Dosinia scalaris
- Dosinia sculpta
- Dosinia semiobliterata
- Dosinia sericea
- Dosinia stabilis
- Dosinia subalata
- Dosinia subrosea
- Dosinia tebblei
- Dosinia tenella
- Dosinia tenuilirata
- Dosinia traillii
- Dosinia tranquebarica
- Dosinia troscheli
- Dosinia turgida
- Dosinia victoriae















































































































































