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  • Family: Lottiidae

  • Actinoleuca campbelli (Filhol, 1880)
    Length 6mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Campbell, Antipodes and Auckland Islands
  • Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis Powell, 1955
    Length 8mm, Width 7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Bounty Islands
  • Actinoleuca macquariensis (Hedley, 1916)
    Length 12mm, Width 10mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Macquarie Island, intertidal
  • Asteracmea suteri (Iredale, 1915)
    Length 3.5mm, Width 2.5mm, Height 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Living below low tide, or washed up in shell drift
    North, South, Stewart & Snares Islands
  • Atalacmea fragilis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1823)
    Length 17mm, Width 13mm, Height 2mm
    Fragile Limpet, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island
  • Atalacmea multilinea Powell, 1934
    Length 11mm, Width 7mm, Height 1.75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Otago and Stewart Island
  • Notoacmea badia W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
    Length 11mm, Width 9mm, Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, At low tide, in clean tidal pools on exposed shores
    South Island, Otago
  • Notoacmea cellanoides W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
    Length 57mm, Width 23mm, Height 8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, More solid than pileopsis, with strong radial ribs and brown interior
    North Island and northern South Island
  • Notoacmea daedala (Suter, 1907)
    Length 16mm, Width 14mm, Height 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Under boulders resting on clean sand, from intertidal flats to exposed shores
    North, South and Stewart Islands
  • Notoacmea elongata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
    Length 20mm, Width 10mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Under boulders from mud flats to exposed shores
    North and South Islands
  • Notoacmea parviconoidea (Suter, 1907)
    Length 12mm, Width 9mm, Height 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, On rocks and mussels at low tide
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
  • Notoacmea pileopsis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
    Length 33mm, Width 28mm, Height 12mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Broadly ovate, outer surface finely radially lirate. Interior with an almost black margin
    North Island and northern South Island
  • Notoacmea potae Nakano, Marshall, Kennedy & Spencer,2009
    Length 8.8mm, Width 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, On rocks in sheltered inlets, or attached to dead bivalve shells
    North and South Island
  • Notoacmea rapida Nakano, Marshall, Kennedy & Spencer,2009
    Length 6.8mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, In muddy harbours, mainly on dead bivalves, usually on the inside of the valves
    North Island. Northland to Napier
  • Notoacmea scapha (Suter, 1907)
    Length 10mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North and South Islands, in harbours on Zostera and dead shells
  • Notoacmea scopulina W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
    Length 19.7mm, Width 15mm, Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North and South Island. In the high intertidal zone on exposed shores
  • Notoacmea sturnus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)
    Length 31.9mm, Width 23mm, Height 13mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Narrowly elliptical, with the apex at the anterior end. Exterior is smooth
    South Island, from Banks Peninsula south. Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Bounty, Antipodes & Macquarie Islands
  • Notoacmea subantarctica W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
    Length 19mm, Width 14mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Inhabits the high intertidal zone to splash zone on exposed shores
    Auckland and Campbell Islands
  • Notoacmea subtilis (Suter, 1907)
    Length 6mm, Width 5mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to East Cape
  • Notoacmea turbatrix Nakano, Marshall, Kennedy & Spencer,2009
    Length 7mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Low tide, on rocks and shells in exposed rock pools
    North and South Islands
  • Patelloida corticata (Hutton, 1880)
    Length 27mm, Width 22mm, Height 13mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Islands
  • Radiacmea inconspicua (Gray, 1843)
    Length 19mm, Width 15mm, Height 8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, At low tide, often on the backs of Paua
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
  • Radiacmea intermedia (Suter, 1907)
    Length 11mm, Width 9mm, Height 4.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Bounty Islands
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