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  • Subfamily: Pagodulinae

  • Axymene aucklandicus (E.A. Smith, 1902)
    Height 13mm, Width 6.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Cook Strait to Stewart Island. Snares, Bounty, Campbell and Auckland Islands
  • Comptella costata B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank and Three Kings Islands, 15-508 metres
  • Comptella cresswelli B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 5.05mm, Width 2.45mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Late Pleistocene (Haweran) and Holocene. Southern South Island, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, 0-220 metres; taken alive at 26-80 metres from bryozoan/shell substrata
  • Comptella curta (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Off Taiaroa Head, Otago, to Stewart Island. Snares, Campbell and Auckland Islands
  • Comptella devia (Suter, 1908)
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Snares Islands
  • Comptella kaikoura B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 7.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern South Island, living at 400 metres
  • Comptella munida B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off south-eastern South Island, 150-343 metres (shells)
  • Comptella paulini B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 5.60mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Fiordland, south-western South Island, 13-415 metres (shells)
  • Comptella pygmaea B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 4.10mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island, 13-415 metres (shells)
  • Enixotrophon carduelis (R.B. Watson, 1882)
    Height 40mm, Width 25mm
    Marine
    New South Wales, southern Lord Howe Rise, West Norfolk Ridge, Kermadec Ridge, and off north-eastern North Island, 320-1216 metres
  • Enixotrophon eos (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
    Height 45mm, Width 23mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern North Island, south-eastern South Island and Chatham Rise, 1100-2130 metres
  • Enixotrophon eumorphus B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011
    Height 24.6mm
    Marine
    Macquarie Ridge, 460-470 metres
  • Enixotrophon hastulus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
    Height 53.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Rise, 1000-1010 metres
  • Enixotrophon latus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
    Height 55mm, Width 32mm
    Marine
    Eastern Australia, Lord Howe Rise, Kermadec Ridge, Chatham Rise, and off North Island and north-eastern and western South Island, 384-1395 meters
  • Enixotrophon macquariensis (Powell, 1957)
    Height 22mm, Width 10.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Macquarie Ridge, 69-810 metres
  • Enixotrophon maxwelli (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
    Height 53mm, Width 22mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    West Norfolk Ridge, W of Cape Reinga, Challenger Plateau, off North and South Islands, Chatham Rise, Bounty Trough, 867-2677 metres
  • Enixotrophon obtusus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
    Height 29mm
    Marine
    Fiji, West Norfolk Ridge, Southern Norfolk Ridge, Three Kings Rise, Kermadec Ridge, and off northern and eastern North Island, 741-1385 metres
  • Enixotrophon occiduus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
    Height 26mm, Width 11mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    West Norfolk Ridge, 950-987 metres
  • Enixotrophon pumilus B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 9.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    West Norfolk Ridge, W of Cape Reinga, 785-800 metres
  • Enixotrophon pygmaeus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
    Height 13mm
    Marine
    Lord Howe Rise and Challenger Plateau, 1029-1186 metres
  • Enixotrophon tangaroa (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
    Height 37mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern South Island and Chatham Rise, 880-2155 metres
  • Enixotrophon venustus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011)
    Height 55mm, Width 21mm
    Marine
    Tasmania, West Norfolk Ridge S of Norfolk Island, Kermadec Ridge, and off northern and eastern North Island, Hikurangi Trench and Chatham Rise, 850-1239 metres
  • Enixotrophon veronicae (Pastorino, 1999)
    Height 52mm, Width 22mm
    Marine
    Southern Chile, Strait of Magellan, South Georgia, Tasmania and Bollons Plateau, southern New Zealand, 298-1281 metres
  • Lamellitrophon carinatus B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 5.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga and off White Island, 15-805 metres, living at 15-23 metres
  • Lamellitrophon huttonii (Murdoch, 1900)
    Height 16mm, Width 7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island
  • Lamellitrophon tangaroa B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 6.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island, from Spirits Bay to as far south as Ranfurly Bank, 16-143 metres, living at 50-56 metres
  • Lamellitrophon teres (Finlay, 1930)
    Height 6mm, Width 3.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island, off Taiaroa Head, Otago, 90 metres
  • Lamellitrophon traversi (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 22mm, Width 10mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, littoral to shallow subtidal. More common in north
  • Lenitrophon convexus (Suter, 1909)
    Height 12.4mm, Width 4.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island. Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands
  • Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882)
    Height 19mm, Width 11mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island west coast, from Ninety Mile Beach to Kawhia
  • Paratrophon cheesemani exsculptus Powell, 1933
    Height 23mm, Width 13mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    West Coast North and South Islands from Port Waikato to Jackson Bay, south of Haast
  • Paratrophon patens (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854)
    Height 29mm, Width 17mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Lamellose within the grooves
    South Island and Stewart Island. On exposed rocky shores
  • Paratrophon quoyi (Reeve, 1846)
    Height 35mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island. From low tide, often around Corallina seaweed
  • Poirieria kopua Dell, 1956
    Height 21mm, Width 15mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Bay of Plenty southwards and Chatham Rise. Trawled around 500-1000 metres
  • Poirieria syrinx B.A. Marshall & Houart, 1995
    Height 26mm, Width 24mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Bay of Plenty, and Cook Strait, 482-786 metres on mud
  • Poirieria zelandica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
    Width 88mm, Height 79mm
    Spiny Murex, Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands to Stewart Island, Challenger Plateau and Chatham Islands, 0-540 metres
  • Terefundus coronatus (Dell, 1956)
    Height 5.5mm, Width 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Off Mernoo Bank to Chatham Islands
  • Terefundus crispulatus (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4mm, Width 1.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Lower South Island. Stewart Chathams and Snares Islands
  • Terefundus cuvierensis (Mestayer, 1919)
    Height 4.5mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Bay of Plenty, trawled
  • Terefundus goniocorella B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 8.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Kaikoura, north-eastern South Island, 400 metres
  • Terefundus grebneffi B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 7.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island, 421-530 metres, living at 476-485 metres
  • Terefundus gregarius B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 9.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island, 128-555 metres, living at 293-476 metres
  • Terefundus mernoo B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 4.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Mernoo Bank, western Chatham Rise, living at 320-419 metres
  • Terefundus nitens B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 5.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off The Aldermen Islands and off Mayor Island, north-eastern North Island, 348-443 metres, living at 443-527 metres
  • Terefundus quadricinctus (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4.4mm, Width 2.1mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    South Island, from Otago south, and Snares Islands
  • Terefundus sepulcralis B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 6.85mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Graveyard Seamount complex, Chatham Rise, 800-990 metres
  • Terefundus unicarinatus Dell, 1956
    Height 4.3mm, Width 2.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham Islands
  • Terefundus venustus B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Otago Peninsula, South-eastern South Island, living at 340-620 metres
  • Trophonella longstaffi (E.A.Smith, 1907)
    Height 35mm
    Marine
    Antarctica
  • Xymene plebeius (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 22mm, Width 11mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, In harbours and estuaries
    North, South and Stewart Island
  • Xymene pumilus (Suter, 1909)
    Height 30mm, Width 15mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    From Cape Campbell to Stewart Island, and Auckland Islands. Sublittoral to about 550 metres
  • Xymene warreni Ponder, 1972
    Height 20mm, Width 11mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island West Coast
  • Xymenella pusilla (Suter, 1907)
    Height 10mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island and east coast of South Island to Stewart Island
  • Zeatrophon ambiguus (Philippi, 1844)
    Height 64mm, Width 38mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. From low tide to about 50 fathoms
  • Zeatrophon mortenseni (Odhner, 1924)
    Height 15mm, Width 6.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Auckland Islands, intertidal to about 10 metres
  • Zeatrophon mortenseni caudatinus (Finlay, 1930)
    Height 23mm, Width 10mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Stewart Island and Chatham Islands. From 20-200 metres
  • Zeatrophon pulcherrimus Finlay, 1930
    Height 18mm, Width 7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. From 15-600 metres
NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil