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  • Subfamily: Cymbiinae

  • Alcithoe albescens Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 48mm, Width 21mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Western North Island and north-western South Island, from 450-500m
  • Alcithoe arabica (Gmelin, 1791)
    Height 235mm, 103mm
    Arabic Volute, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Islands, from 0-293m
  • Alcithoe benthicola (Dell, 1963)
    Height 260mm, Width 145mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island, from Cape Brett to White Island, from 353-700m
  • Alcithoe colesae Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 84mm, Width 32.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island, from 164-200m
  • Alcithoe davegibbsi (Hart, 1999)
    Height 55mm, Width 26mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga and off Spirits Bay, from 20-206m
  • Alcithoe fissurata (Dell, 1963)
    Height 260mm, Width 93mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island, from 320-807m
  • Alcithoe crassa Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 170mm, Width 68mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and North-western North Island
  • Alcithoe elegans Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 190mm, Width 75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands and North-western North Island, from 250-320m
  • Alcithoe flemingi Dell, 1978
    Height 100mm, Width 32mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island, Campbell Plateau, Bounty Plateau and Chatham Rise, from 400-1051m
  • Alcithoe fusus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
    Height 84mm, Width 35mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern and south-western North Island, northern and eastern South Island, and Stewart Island, from 0-475m
  • Alcithoe jaculoides Powell, 1924
    Height 188mm, Width 70mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island and eastern South Island as far south as Oamaru, from 46-925m
  • Alcithoe larochei Marwick, 1926
    Height 144mm, Width 66mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern North Island as far north as The Aldermen Islands, and north-eastern South Island, from 73-670m
  • Alcithoe larochei ostenfeldi (Iredale, 1937)
    Height 222mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-western South Island, from 37-512m
  • Alcithoe lutea (R.B. Watson, 1882)
    Height 85mm, Width 38mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Challenger Plateau, from 472-691m
  • Alcithoe pseudolutea Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 110mm, Width 45mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern North Island as far north as Red Mercury Island, from 234-695m
  • Alcithoe seelyeorum Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 190mm, Width 75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks and Three Kings Islands, from 121-206m
  • Alcithoe tigrina Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 140mm, Width 64mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern North Island as far south as White Island, from 201-603m
  • Alcithoe triregensis Bail & Limpus, 2005
    Height 69.8mm, Width 21.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank, NW of Three Kings Islands, from 246-291m
  • Alcithoe wilsonae (Powell, 1933)
    Height 111mm, Width 43mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern and south-western South Island, Stewart Island, Auckland Islands and Chatham Rise, from 110-951m
  • Provocator mirabilis Finlay, 1926
    Height 178mm, Width 57mm
    Golden Volute, Marine, Native - Endemic, White form occurs rarely off Auckland Islands
    Eastern North Island, eastern and south-western South Island, E of Stewart Island, Snares Islands, Campbell Plateau and Chatham Rise, from 179-984m
  • Zygomelon zodion Harasewych & Marshall, 1995
    Height 75mm, Width 34mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bounty Plateau and Bounty Trough, from 598-1386m
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