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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Volutoidea (Superfamily) > Volutidae (Family) > Cymbiinae (Subfamily) > Alcithoe (Genus)
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  • Genus: Alcithoe

  • Alcithoe albescens Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 48mm, Width 21mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Trawled off Northland, and off Greymouth
  • Alcithoe arabica (Gmelin, 1791)
    Height 235mm, 103mm
    Arabic Volute, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Islands
  • Alcithoe benthicola (Dell, 1963)
    Height 260mm, Width 145mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast to Bay of Plenty, Aldermen Islands and White Island. Trawled from 400-800 metres on muddy substrate
  • Alcithoe colesae Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 84mm, Width 32.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Puysegur Bank 164 metres
  • Alcithoe davegibbsi (Hart, 1999)
    Height 55mm, Width 26mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Spirits Bay, Far North. Also a worn specimen found dredged off Pakiri
  • Alcithoe fissurata (Dell, 1963)
    Height 260mm, Width 93mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Cape Brett, Northland east coast to Bay of Plenty. Trawled from around 350-700 metres
  • Alcithoe fissurata crassa Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 170mm, Width 68mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands. In cray pots around 50-80 metres
  • Alcithoe fissurata elegans Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 190mm, Width 75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Ahipara to Cape Maria van Diemen, Far North. Trawled from around 250-320 metres
  • Alcithoe flemingi Dell, 1978
    Height 100mm, Width 32mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Rise, off Auckland and Campbell Islands
  • Alcithoe fusus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
    Height 84mm, Width 35mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island and South Island to Otago. In shallow water to about 50 fathoms
  • Alcithoe jaculoides Powell, 1924
    Height 188mm, Width 70mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    East coast of North and South Island, from Otago to Three Kings Islands, and off the Ninety Mile Beach
  • Alcithoe larochei Marwick, 1926
    Height 144mm, Width 66mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island. Bay of Plenty to Cape Campbell and Cook Strait
  • Alcithoe larochei ostenfeldi (Iredale, 1937)
    Height 222mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Hokitika to Westport
  • Alcithoe lutea (R.B. Watson, 1882)
    Height 85mm, Width 38mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Endemic to the Challenger Plateau and vicinity, 400-600 metres
  • Alcithoe pseudolutea Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 110mm, Width 45mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    East of Aldermen Islands, Bay of Plenty to off southern Hawkes Bay
  • Alcithoe seelyeorum Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 190mm, Width 75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Between Three Kings Islands & North Cape. In craypots around 60-80 metres
  • Alcithoe tigrina Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 140mm, Width 64mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bay of Plenty to Mahia. Trawled around 100-600 metres
  • Alcithoe triregensis Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 69.8mm, Width 21.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Characterised by incised protoconch and glossy surface
    Middlesex Bank, NW of Three Kings Islands 246-291 metres
  • Alcithoe wilsonae (Powell, 1933)
    Height 111mm, Width 43mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago, Chatham Rise and Auckland Islands to Campbell Plateau, 50-580 metres
NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil