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  • Family: Cerithiidae

  • Cerithium abditum Houbrick, 1992
    Length 15.4mm, Width 4.5mm
    Marine
    Indo-West Pacific, from Philippines south through New Caledonia to the Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Cerithium atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933
    Length 15.5mm, Width 6.0mm
    Marine
    Indo-Pacific region from east Africa to Hawaii and Easter Island. Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Cerithium citrinum (G.B. Sowerby II, 1855)
    Length 50mm, Width 19.6mm
    Marine
    East Africa, Madagascar, and southern India to Western Australia and Indian Ocean Islands. Western Pacific, Japan to Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Cerithium columna (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
    Height 50mm, Width 20.8mm
    Marine
    Mediterranean; Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific, Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Cerithium echinatum Lamarck, 1822
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Cerithium matukense R.B. Watson, 1880
    Length 70mm, Width 18mm
    Marine
    Western Pacific around the Philippines, Borneo, Guam, Fiji,
    New Caledonia, and south to the Kermadecs

    K
  • Cerithium nesioticum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906
    Length 22mm
    Marine
    Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and throughout the Tropical Western Pacific. Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Cerithium ophioderma (Habe, 1968)
    Length 51mm
    Marine
    Western Central Pacific, Kermadec Islands. 50-275 metres
    K
  • Cerithium sp. cf. interstriatum G.B. Sowerby II, 1855
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Pseudovertagus clava (Gmelin, 1791)
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Royella sinon (Bayle, 1880)
    Length 29mm
    Marine
    Indo-Pacific, Japan to Lord Howe Island, Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Zebittium editum Powell, 1930
    Height 6mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Thee Kings and Poor Knights Islands
    AE.
  • Zebittium exile (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 5.5mm, Width 2.0mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island
    ACFE.
  • Zebittium laevicordatum Powell, 1937
    Height 4.0mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    AE.
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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil