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  • Family: Cominellidae

  • 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
    A
  • Cominella adspersa (Bruguière, 1789)
    Height 74mm, Width 45mm
    Whelk, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island, northern part of South Island and Chatham Islands
    ACM
  • Cominella alertae (Dell, 1956)
    Height 27mm, Width 12mm
    Marine
    Off Chatham Islands to Chatham Rise
    CM
  • 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
    CR.Fo.
  • Cominella glandiformis (Reeve, 1847)
    Height 43mm, Width 23mm
    Mud Whelk, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
    ACFM
  • Cominella griseicalx Willan, 1978
    Height 23mm, Width 12mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, Northern
    A
  • Cominella maculosa (Martyn, 1784)
    Height 58mm, Width 28mm
    Spotted Whelk, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island, northern part of South Island and Chatham Islands
    ACM
  • Cominella mirabilis Powell, 1929
    Height 18mm, Width 8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Cominella mirabilis canturiensis (Dell, 1951)
    Height 30mm, Width 14mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Chatham Rise and off Banks Peninsula
    CM
  • Cominella mirabilis powelli (Fleming, 1948)
    Height 15mm, Width 8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Large protoconch
    Off South Island, West Coast, Fiordland, Otago and Chatham Rise
    CFM
  • Cominella nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
    Height 50mm, Width 25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island and Foveaux Strait
    F
  • Cominella nassoides consobrina Powell, 1933
    Height 60mm, Width 28mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands, probably sub-recent
    M
  • Cominella nassoides haroldi Powell, 1946
    Height 35mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Fiordland, about 20-70 metres
    F
  • Cominella nassoides iredalei (Finlay, 1928)
    Height 55mm, Width 33mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Island
    M
  • Cominella nassoides nodicincta (Martens, 1878)
    Height 56mm, Width 28mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland and Campbell Islands, 70-80 metres
    An
  • Cominella nassoides otakauica Powell, 1946
    Height 75mm, Width 37mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Taiaroa Head, Otago, to Cook Strait
    F
  • Cominella necopinata (Finlay, 1930)
    Height 22mm, Width 11mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern North Island
    A
  • Cominella olsoni (Dell, 1956)
    Height 63mm, Width 30mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Mernoo Bank, Chatham Rise to Banks Peninsula. Off Puysegur Point, Fiordland
    C
  • Cominella otagoensis (Finlay, 1927)
    Height 20mm, Width 10mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Taiaroa Head, Otago, to Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island
    F
  • Cominella quoyana A. Adams, 1854
    Height 26mm, Width 11mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern part of North Island to Mahia
    AC
  • Cominella regalis Willan, 1978
    Height 21mm, Width 12mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands in 20-50 metres
    A
  • Cominella tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
    Height 31mm, Width 20mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island east coast. East Cape to Mahia, below low tide
    C
  • Cominella virgata H. & A. Adams, 1853
    Height 43mm, Width 20mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island and upper South Island
    AC
  • Pareuthria fuscata (Bruguière, 1789)
    Height 33mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Campbell and Antipodes Islands, in low tidal pools
    An
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