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Species List for Family: Pseudomelatomidae
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  • Family: Pseudomelatomidae

  • Anticomitas vivens Powell, 1942
    Height 9.5mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Antimelatoma buchanani (E.A. Smith, 1877)
    Height 20mm, Width 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to East Cape
    ACF
  • Comitas onokeana vivens Dell, 1956
    Height 48mm, Width 16mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off North Island east coast down to eastern Otago and Chatham Rise
    ACFM
  • Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 28mm, Width 10mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Off Oamaru to Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island
    F
  • Leucosyrinx canyonensis (Dell, 1956)
    Height 9mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Off Cook Strait to eastern Otago 430-650 metres
    F
  • Leucosyrinx eremita (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Poor Knights Islands to Bay of Plenty
    A
  • Leucosyrinx pikei (Dell, 1963)
    Height 35mm, Width 11mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast. Off Poor Knights Islands around 475 metres
    A
  • Paracomitas augusta (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 10mm, Width 3.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island to Cook Strait
    AC
  • Paracomitas haumuria Beu, 1979
    Height 15mm, Width 6.1mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Central & South, described from fossil
    CFR.Fo.
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