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  • Family: Cymatiidae

  • Argobuccinum pustulosum (Lightfoot, 1786)
    Height 136mm, Width 95mm
    Marine
    North, South, Stewart, Chatham, Snares and Auckland Islands. Low tide to about 75 fathoms, more common in south
    ACFMAn
  • Austrosassia parkinsonia (Perry, 1811)
    Height 58mm, Width 29mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil
    Northland to Bay of Plenty. Below low water to about 20 metres
    KACR.Fo.
  • Cabestana spengleri (Perry, 1811)
    Height 188mm, Width 115mm
    Spenglers Trumpet, Marine
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Low tide to about 15 fathoms. Also from Australia and Kermadec Islands
    KACFM
  • Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
    Height 91mm, Width 52mm
    Marine, Lives on solitary ascidians
    North, South and Chatham Islands from low tide to about 25 fathoms. Also Australia and Kermadec Islands
    KACFM
  • Cymatona kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
    Height 55mm, Width 27mm
    Marine
    Off Cook Strait and East Coast of South Island to Foveaux Strait and Chatham Rise, New Zealand. Also off Eastern Australia
    ACFMAn
  • Fusitriton laudandus Finlay, 1926
    Height 157mm, Width 72mm
    Marine
    North, South, Chatham and Auckland Islands. Approx 20 to over 300 fathoms
    ACFMAn
  • Linatella caudata (Gmelin, 1791)
    Height 50mm (NZ), Height Up to 100mm overseas
    Marine
    Northland. Occasionally empty shells washed up on east coast beaches
    A
  • Monoplex exaratus (Reeve, 1844)
    Height 60mm, Width 36mm
    Marine
    Northland east coast
    KAC
  • Monoplex nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands. Dead specimens from intertidal to 15 metres
    K
  • Monoplex parthenopeus (von Salis, 1793)
    Height 142mm, Width 80mm
    Hairy Trumpet, Marine
    North, South and Chatham Islands. Also Australia
    KACFM
  • Proxicharonia palmeri Powell, 1967
    Height 73mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast to Bay of Plenty and off East Cape, approx. 40-120 metres
    KA
  • Ranularia dunkeri (Lischke, 1868)
    Height 97mm, Width 52mm
    Marine
    Central Indo-Pacific, Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Sassia remensa (Iredale, 1936)
    Height 40mm, Width 18mm
    Marine
    Eastern Australia (from 100-600 metres), New Zealand (300-400 metres), and from deep sea dredging around New Caledonia, Vanuatu and in the Coral Sea. Northern NZ to Bay of Plenty in deep water
    KA
  • Turritriton labiosus (W. Wood, 1828)
    Height 30mm, Width 18mm
    Marine
    Off Northland east coast. Also Indo-West Pacific, Japan, Philippines, Fiji, Australia, Kermadec Islands
    KA
Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing 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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil