Species List for Family: Cypraeidae
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- Naria cernica (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870)
Length 33mm, Width 20mm
Poor Knights Cowrie, Marine
Northland. Cape Maria van Diemen to Poor Knights Islands, to about 20 metres. Also Lord Howe Island, Kermadec Islands and New South Wales, Australia
KA
- Monetaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Length 43mm
Marine
The entire Indo-West Pacific region, from east Africa to the Cocos Islands, off Central America. Australia and Kermadec Islands
K - Monetaria moneta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Length 20mm
Money Cowrie, Marine
Entire tripical Indian and Pacific Oceans, from east Africa to central America, including northern Australia and Kermadec Islands
K - Lyncina vitellus Linnaeus, 1758
Length 55mm, Width 35mm
Marine, Occasionally found around offshore Islands around Northland. Very rarely seen on the mainland
Indo-Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands, Polynesia and Northland to Poor Knights Islands, down to about 25 metres
KA
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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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