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  • Family: Cerithiidae

  • Zebittium editum Powell, 1930
    Height 6mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, NW of Cape Reinga, and north-eastern North Island as far south as White Island, from 14-805m
  • Zebittium exile (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 5.5mm, Width 2.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
    North Island, off Cape Reinga and as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-55m
  • Zebittium laevicordatum Powell, 1937
    Height 4.0mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands and off Spirits Bay, from 36-805m
  • Cerithium abditum Houbrick, 1992
    Length 15.4mm, Width 4.5mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific, from Philippines south through New Caledonia to the Kermadec Islands, from 512-1316m
  • Cerithium atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933
    Length 15.5mm, Width 6.0mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic, Shallow sublittoral
    Indo-Pacific region from east Africa to Hawaii and Easter Island. Kermadec Islands, from 0-27m
  • Cerithium citrinum (G.B. Sowerby II, 1855)
    Length 50mm, Width 19.6mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    East Africa, Madagascar, and southern India to Western Australia and Indian Ocean Islands. Western Pacific, Japan to Kermadec Islands, from 10-30m
  • Cerithium columna (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
    Height 50mm, Width 20.8mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Mediterranean; Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific, Kermadec Islands, from 15-366m
  • Cerithium echinatum Lamarck, 1822
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Red Sea and Indo-Pacific. Kermadec Islands, from 10-30m
  • Cerithium interstriatum G.B. Sowerby II, 1855
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-Pacific. Kermadec Islands, from 5-45m
  • Cerithium matukense R.B. Watson, 1880
    Length 70mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Western Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. N of Three Kings Islands and Raoul Island, from 274-622m
  • Cerithium nesioticum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906
    Length 22mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and throughout the Tropical Western Pacific. Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 15-25m
  • Cerithium ophioderma (Habe, 1968)
    Length 51mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Western Central Pacific, Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 82-100m
  • Pseudovertagus clava (Gmelin, 1791)
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific. Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 10-20m
  • Royella sinon (Bayle, 1880)
    Length 29mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-Pacific, Japan to Lord Howe Island, Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 29-31m
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