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Species List for Genus: Comptella
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Pagodulinae (Subfamily) > Comptella (Genus)
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  • Genus: Comptella

  • Comptella costata B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Marine, Endemic
    Middlesex Bank and Three Kings Islands, 15-508 metres
    AE.
  • Comptella cresswelli B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 5.05mm, Width 2.45mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, 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
    FAnR.Fo.E.
  • Comptella curta (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Endemic
    South Island. Off Taiaroa Head, Otago, to Stewart Island. Snares, Campbell and Auckland Islands
    FAnE.
  • Comptella devia (Suter, 1908)
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Snares Islands
    AnE.
  • Comptella kaikoura B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 7.7mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North-eastern South Island, living at 400 metres
    CE.
  • Comptella munida B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Marine, Endemic
    Off south-eastern South Island, 150-343 metres (shells)
    FE.
  • Comptella paulini B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 5.60mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Fiordland, south-western South Island, 13-415 metres (shells)
    FE.
  • Comptella pygmaea B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022
    Height 4.10mm
    Marine, Endemic
    South-western South Island, 13-415 metres (shells)
    FE.
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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil