Uncommon, 16 to 20mm long, 11.5 to 13mm wide. Plates are covered by a pattern of fine wrinkles. It has a narrow skirt/girdle of small triangular scales that is quite thick. Plates have a dark-green base colour with front to back darker lines. Occasionally some plates may be white or have white patches. Bathams card 1631 says "Distinctive features: Blue lines on lateral area of valves"
Under stones near low tide zone on open coasts. North Island west coastline, Otago Peninsula, South Island.
New Zealand Mollusca, Marine Land and Freshwater Shells, A W B Powell, 1979
Bathams card 1631
Aerilamma murdochi (Reeve, 1847)
Depth | intertidal |
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Places | North Island, South Island |