Echyridella aucklandica

Echyridella aucklandica

Nationally Vulnerable (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Echyridella
Species:
E. aucklandica
Binomial name
Echyridella aucklandica
(Gray, 1843)
Synonyms
  • Cucumerunio websteri (C. T. Simpson, 1902)
  • Cucumerunio websteri delli McMichael & Hiscock, 1958
  • Diplodon (Hyridella) menziesi lucasi Suter, 1905
  • Diplodon menziesii lucasi Suter, 1905
  • Diplodon websteri C. T. Simpson, 1902
  • Echyridella lucasi (Suter, 1905)
  • Hyridella aucklandica (J. E. Gray, 1843)
  • Unio aucklandicus J. E. Gray, 1843

Echyridella aucklandica is a species of freshwater mussel endemic to New Zealand. E. aucklandica is an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.