Species List for Genus: Alcithoe
Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Volutoidea (Superfamily) > Volutidae (Family) > Zidoninae (Subfamily) > Alcithoe (Genus)
Filter region: 
(greyed out images not recorded from filtered region)
Click here to filter list on Geographical Range
Genus: Alcithoe
Alcithoe albescens Bail & Limpus, 2005
Height 40.8mm, Width 17.8mm, Marine, Endemic
Trawled off Ahipara, Northland, around 500 metres AE.
Alcithoe arabica (Gmelin, 1791)
(=depressa Suter, =swainsoni Marwick, =rossiteri Brazier)
Height 200mm, Width 88mm, Arabic Volute, Marine, Endemic
North, South and Stewart Islands ACFE.
Alcithoe benthicola (Dell, 1963)
Height 250mm, Width 140mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Northland east coast to Bay of Plenty, Aldermen Islands and White Island. Trawled from 400-800 metres on muddy substrate AE.
Alcithoe colesae Bail & Limpus, 2005
Length 84mm, Width 32.8mm, Marine, Endemic
South Island. Puysegur Bank 164 metres FE.
Alcithoe davegibbsi (Hart, 1999)
Height 55mm, Width 26mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Spirits Bay, Far North. Also a worn specimen found dredged off Pakiri AE.
Alcithoe fissurata (Dell, 1963)
Height 195mm, Width 70mm, Marine, Endemic
Cape Brett, Northland east coast to Bay of Plenty. Trawled from around 350-700 metres AE.- Alcithoe fissurata crassa Bail & Limpus, 2005
Height 170mm, Width 68mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands. In cray pots around 50-80 metres AE. 
Alcithoe fissurata elegans Bail & Limpus, 2005
Height 190mm, Width 75mm, Marine, Endemic
Ahipara to Cape Maria van Diemen, Far North. Trawled from around 250-320 metres AE.
Alcithoe flemingi Dell, 1978
Height 100mm, Width 32mm, Marine, Endemic
Chatham Rise, off Auckland and Campbell Islands FMAnE.
Alcithoe fusus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
(=haurakiensis Dell, =hedleyi Murdoch & Suter)
Height 75mm, Width 30mm, Marine, Endemic
North Island and South Island to Otago. In shallow water to about 50 fathoms ACFE.
Alcithoe jaculoides Powell, 1924
(=calva Powell,1928)
Height 188mm, Width 70mm, Marine, Endemic
East coast of North and South Island, from Otago to Three Kings Islands, and off the Ninety Mile Beach ACFE.
Alcithoe larochei Marwick, 1926
Height 120mm, Width 55mm, Marine, Endemic
North Island. East Cape to Cape Campbell and Cook Strait ACE.
Alcithoe larochei ostenfeldi (Iredale, 1937)
Height 216mm, Marine, Endemic
South Island. Hokitika to Westport CE.
Alcithoe lutea (Watson, 1882)
Height 70mm, Width 32mm, Marine, Endemic
Endemic to the Challenger Plateau and vicinity, 400-600 metres CE.
Alcithoe pseudolutea Bail & Limpus, 2005
Height 78mm, Width 35mm, Marine, Endemic
East of Aldermen Islands, Bay of Plenty, to Chatham Rise ACME.
Alcithoe seelyeorum Bail & Limpus, 2005
Height 190mm, Width 75mm, Marine, Endemic
Between Three Kings Islands & North Cape. In craypots around 60-80 metres AE.
Alcithoe tigrina Bail & Limpus, 2005
Height 110mm, Width 50mm, Marine, Endemic
Bay of Plenty to Mahia. Trawled around 100-600 metres AE.
Alcithoe triregensis Bail & Limpus, 2005
Length 69.8mm, Width 21.4mm, Marine, Endemic, Characterised by incised protoconch and glossy surface
Middlesex Bank, NW of Three Kings Islands 246-291 metres AE.
Alcithoe wilsonae (Powell, 1933)
(=acuminata Bail & Limpus, =chathamensis Dell, =grahami Powell, =knoxi Dell, =smithi Powell)
Height 90mm, Width 35mm, Marine, Endemic
Off eastern Otago, Chatham Rise and Auckland Islands to Campbell Plateau, 50-580 metres CFMAnE.
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 approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil