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Species List for Family: Turbinidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Vetigastropoda (Subclass) > Trochida (Order) > Trochoidea (Superfamily) > Turbinidae (Family)
  • Family: Turbinidae

  • Astraea heliotropium (Martyn, 1784)
    Width 120mm, Height 60mm
    Circular Saw Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, and Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank, from 0-200m
  • Bolma kermadecensis Beau & Ponder, 1979
    Width 47mm, Height 36mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands, from 135-165m
  • Bolma recens Dell, 1967
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Mozambique, Madagascar, New Caledonia and northern New Zealand. Norfolk Islands, Wanganella Bank, and Kiwi Seamount, northern Three Kings Rise, from 521-1000m
  • Cookia sulcata (Lightfoot, 1786)
    Width 124mm, Height 90mm
    Cooks Turban Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, from 0-42m
  • Lunella smaragda (Gmelin, 1791)
    Width 91mm, Height 84mm
    Common Cats Eye, Pupu, Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, from 0-20m
  • Modelia granosa (Martyn, 1784)
    Height 92mm, Width 90mm
    Southern Cats Eye, Marine, Native - Endemic, Low tide to about 40 metres. More common in the south where it usually grows to a larger size
    King and Middlesex Banks, and Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, from 0-188m
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