Species List for Family: Cominellidae
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- Cominella accuminata Hutton, 1893
Height 20mm, Width 9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, More slender than C. quoyana, whorls evenly convex, not shouldered; interior of the aperture is strongly lirae
Northland west coast
- Cominella adspersa (Bruguière, 1789)
Height 74mm, Width 45mm
Whelk, Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island, northern part of South Island and Chatham Islands
- Cominella elegantula (Finlay, 1926)
Height 28mm, Width 13mm
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic, Pronounced shoulder sulcus and thin axial ribbing
Cook Strait to Cape Campbell
- Cominella glandiformis (Reeve, 1847)
Height 43mm, Width 23mm
Mud Whelk, Marine, Native - Endemic
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
- Cominella griseicalx Willan, 1978
Height 23mm, Width 12mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, Northern
- Cominella maculosa (Martyn, 1784)
Height 58mm, Width 28mm
Spotted Whelk, Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island, northern part of South Island and Chatham Islands
- Cominella mirabilis Powell, 1929
Height 18mm, Width 8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands
- Cominella mirabilis canturiensis (Dell, 1951)
Height 30mm, Width 14mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South Island. Chatham Rise and off Banks Peninsula
- Cominella mirabilis powelli (Fleming, 1948)
Height 15mm, Width 8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, Large protoconch
Off South Island, West Coast, Fiordland, Otago and Chatham Rise - Cominella nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
Height 50mm, Width 25mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Stewart Island and Foveaux Strait
- Cominella nassoides consobrina Powell, 1933
Height 60mm, Width 28mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Chatham Islands, probably sub-recent
- Cominella nassoides haroldi Powell, 1946
Height 35mm, Width 18mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Fiordland, about 20-70 metres
- Cominella nassoides iredalei (Finlay, 1928)
Height 55mm, Width 33mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Chatham Island
- Cominella nassoides nodicincta (Martens, 1878)
Height 56mm, Width 28mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Auckland and Campbell Islands, 70-80 metres
- Cominella nassoides otakauica Powell, 1946
Height 75mm, Width 37mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Taiaroa Head, Otago, to Cook Strait
- Cominella necopinata (Finlay, 1930)
Height 22mm, Width 11mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northern North Island
- Cominella olsoni (Dell, 1956)
Height 63mm, Width 30mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South Island. Mernoo Bank, Chatham Rise to Banks Peninsula. Off Puysegur Point, Fiordland
- Cominella otagoensis (Finlay, 1927)
Height 20mm, Width 10mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Taiaroa Head, Otago, to Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island
- Cominella quoyana A. Adams, 1854
Height 26mm, Width 11mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northern part of North Island to Mahia
- Cominella regalis Willan, 1978
Height 21mm, Width 12mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands in 20-50 metres
- Cominella tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
Height 31mm, Width 20mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island east coast. East Cape to Mahia, below low tide
- Cominella virgata H. & A. Adams, 1853
Height 43mm, Width 20mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island and upper South Island
- Pareuthria fuscata (Bruguière, 1789)
Height 33mm, Width 18mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Campbell and Antipodes Islands, in low tidal pools
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
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