{"scientificNameAuthorship":"(Reeve, 1853)","RecordModifiedOn":"2014-09-18","CAAB_code":"23356024","phylum":"Mollusca","Notes":"Marshall & Spencer (2013) regard <i>Semele brambleyae</i> as an adventive New Zealand record of the Chinese species <i>S. vestalis</i>, which they regard as distinct from <i>S. carnicolor</i>. It is very likely that the NZ specimen was transported in ballast water. No other specimens have ever been found in NZ.","habitat":"Marine unspecified<br>","NameVerifiedSource":"Marshall, B.A., Spencer, H.G., 2013. Comments on some taxonomic changes affecting marine Bivalvia of the New Zealand region recently introduced in Huber's <i>Compendium of bivalves</i>, with some additional taxonomic changes., <i>Molluscan Research</i>, Vol. 33(1): 40-49.","Parent_Id":"","scientificName":"Semele vestalis","kingdom":"Animalia","order":"Veneroida","otherVernacularNames":"","Reference":"Huber, M., 2010, <i>Compendium of Bivalves</i>. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp.","vernacularName":"[a bivalve]","ChildCodes":"","RecordCreatedOn":"2013-08-15","scientificNameID_WoRMS":"urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722865","family":"Semelidae","standardName":"","class":"Bivalvia","scientificNameID_AFD":"","CAAB_status":"Valid"}