New Zealand Mollusca - Coralliophila

Key to Geographical Ranges

The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approxomation of the range of each species within New Zealand.

Kermadec Islands

Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape

Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island

Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island

Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island

An=

Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand

FW =

Freshwater

L =

Land

E =

Endemic

I =

Introduced

Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Coralliophilinae (Subfamily) > Coralliophila (Genus)

Genus: Coralliophila	map >
*Coralliophila bulbiformis* (Conrad, 1837) Height 26mm, Width 19mm Kermadec Islands. Off Poor Knights Islands, Northland [K.A]
*Coralliophila monodonta* (Blainville, 1832) (=madreporarum G.B.Sowerby I) Height 30mm Kermadec Islands [K.]
*Coralliophila radula* (A.Adams, 1855) Length 28mm, Width 21mm Kermadec Islands [K.]
*Coralliophila sertata* (Hedley, 1903) Height 22mm, Width 12mm Off Three Kings Islands and Northland to East Cape [K.A]
*Coralliophila solutistoma* Kuroda & Shikama in Shikama, 1966 Length 27mm, Width 16mm Kermadec Islands [K.]
*Coralliophila sp. aff. sertata* (Hedley, 1903) Height 13.75, Width 8mm, Endemic Kermadec Islands and northern NZ [K.A]
*Coralliophila squamosissima* (E.A.Smith, 1876) (=Neothais clathrata Willan not A.Adams, =sertata Brook & Marshall not Hedley) Height 30mm, Width 21mm South Africa, Indo-West Pacific, Australia, Kermadec Islands and Northland east coast [K.A]