Species List for Family: Limidae
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- Acesta maui B.A. Marshall, 2001
Height 130mm, Width 90mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Cook Strait, Chatham Rise, Campbell Rise, Papanui Canyon. Off Auckland Islands
CMAnE.
- Acesta saginata B.A. Marshall, 2001
Height 95mm, Width 70mm
Marine
Off Kermadec Islands and Three Kings Islands. Trawled around 1000-1400 metres
KA
- Divarilima sydneyensis (Hedley, 1904)
Height 7mm, Width 5.5mm
Marine
Off Three Kings Islands to Northland east coast. Under stones from low tide
KA
- Escalima regularis Powell, 1955
Height 10mm, Width 8mm
Marine, Endemic
Three Kings Islands to Snares, Auckland and Chatham Islands. Chatham Rise
ACFMAnE. - Lima zealandica G.B. Sowerby III, 1877
Height 85mm, Width 58mm
Marine, Endemic
Lower South Island. Stewart and Chatham Islands. Dredged from shallow water to around 130 metres
FMAnE.
- Limaria orientalis (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Length 36mm, Width 24mm
File Shell, Marine
North Island and northern South Island. Also Japan and South Australia. Under stones from low tide
AC
- Limatula aupouria Powell, 1937
Width 1.6mm, Height 2.4mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, trawled 260 metres
AE.
- Limatula delli C.A. Fleming, 1978
Height 11mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, trawled 800 metres
AE.
- Limatula maoria Finlay, 1926
Height 40mm, Width 20mm
File Shell, Marine, Endemic, Sculptured with low crisp radial ribs, well developed over the central area but obsolete at the sides, crossed by dense concentric growth lines
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Shallow water to over 500 metres
ACFME.
- Limatula powelli C.A. Fleming, 1978
Height 15mm
Marine
Off Three Kings Islands 622 metres. Off Antipodes and Bounty Islands. Also New South Wales and South Australia
KAAn
- Limatula raoulica C.A. Fleming, 1978
Height 5mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Endemic
NW of Fleetwood Bluff, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands
KE.
- Limatula suteri (Dall, 1908)
Height 11mm, Width 6mm
Marine, Endemic, Smaller and narrower than maoria. Radial ribs fewer, and grouped posterior to the median ridge
North, South and Stewart Islands. Chatham Rise and off Snares Islands
ACFMAnE.
- Limatula vigilis C.A. Fleming, 1978
Height 7.5mm, Width 4.5mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, North, South, Stewart, Snares and Auckland Islands
ACFAnE.
- Limea pygmaea (Philippi, 1845)
Height 12mm, Width 10mm
Marine
Off Macquarie Island 69 metres, Also Magellan Strait to Falklands, South Georgia, Antarctica, Kerguelen Islands
An
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
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