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  • Family: Rissoidae

  • Alvania abrupta (Dell, 1956)
    Height 2mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island as far north as Oamaru, and Auckland, Campbell and Antipodes Islands
  • Alvania aupouria (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.05mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank and Three Kings Islands
  • Alvania bountyensis (Dell, 1950)
    Height 2.15mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bounty Islands
  • Alvania exserta (Suter, 1908)
    Height 2.6mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes Islands, and Pukaki Rise
  • Alvania gallinacea (Finlay, 1930)
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island
  • Alvania gradatoides (Finlay, 1930)
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island
  • Alvania kermadecensis (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
  • Alvania maclurgi (Powell, 1933)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 1.05mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bounty Islands, Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank
  • Alvania pinguis (Webster, 1906)
    Height 2mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern North Island as far south-east as East Cape
  • Alvania pinguoides (Powell, 1940)
    Height 2.3mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Cape Reinga
  • Alvania semireticulata (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 3.3mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island and Chatham Rise
  • Alvania solitaria (Dell, 1956)
    Height 2.4mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands
  • Alvania venusta (Powell, 1926)
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island, Chatham Rise and Pukaki Rise
  • Haurakia aupouria (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.9mm, Width 1.25mm
    to delete = Alvania aupouria, Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern Norfolk Ridge, Middlesex Bank and Three Kings Islands
  • Haurakia crassicosta Powell, 1955
    Height 2.45mm, Width 1.55mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Snares Islands
  • Haurakia finlayi Powell, 1937
    Height 2.9mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and NW of Cape Maria van Diemen
  • Haurakia hamiltoni (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, North Island and South Island as far south as Dunedin
  • Haurakia huttoni (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Caswell Sound, Stewart, Snares, Auckland and Bounty Islands, and Pukaki Rise
  • Haurakia infecta (Suter, 1908)
    Height 1.75mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, northern North Island, north-eastern and southern South Island, and Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands
  • Haurakia latiambita (Ponder, 1967)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
    Northern North Island as far south-east as Te Kaha
  • Haurakia minuscula Powell, 1955
    Height 2.05mm, Width 1.34mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland Islands
  • Haurakia mobilicosta (Ponder, 1967)
    Height 1.59mm, Width 1.95mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
    North-eastern North Island as far south as Hicks Bay
  • Haurakia otagoensis (Dell, 1956)
    Height 2.6mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island
  • Haurakia pellucida (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.6mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and off Cape Reinga
  • Haurakia sinuastoma (Ponder, 1967)
    Height 1.0mm, Width 0.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Spirits Bay
  • Haurakia subsuturalis Dell, 1956
    Height 2.3mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island
  • Haurakia wallacei (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
  • Onoba analoga (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 0.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and off Cape Reinga
  • Onoba duplicata (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.85mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks and Three Kings Islands
  • Onoba elegans (Ponder, 1965)
    Height 3.1mm, Width 2.15mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and off northern tip of Northland
  • Onoba exuta (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.65mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands
  • Onoba lubrica (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.2mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Karitane, and Stewart and Auckland Islands
  • Onoba paupereques (Finlay, 1926)
    Height 2.4mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, W of Cape Reinga and off Poor Knights Islands
  • Onoba simplex (Powell, 1927)
    Height 2.0mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island
  • Powellisetia australis (R.B. Watson, 1886)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.45mm
    Marine
    Sub-Antarctic Islands, deep
  • Powellisetia bilirata Ponder, 1965
    Height 1.05mm, Width 0.68mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank
  • Powellisetia crassilabrum (Powell, 1940)
    Height 1.29mm, Width 1.09mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Tom Bowling Bay
  • Powellisetia fairchildi (Powell, 1933)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Foveaux Strait and Stewart, Auckland and Bounty Islands
  • Powellisetia foveauxana (E.C. Smith, 1962)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Haast, and Stewart, Auckland, Antipodes and Bounty Islands
  • Powellisetia gradata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 1.65mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Oamaru, Stewart, Snares and Auckland Islands, Pukaki Rise and western Chatham Rise
  • Powellisetia lineata (E.C. Smith, 1962)
    Height 1.4mm, Width 0.96mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Low tide in algae
    Stewart Island
  • Powellisetia microstriata (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 2.07mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island as far north as Karitane Canyon, and Stewart, Snares and Campbell Islands
  • Powellisetia porcellana (Suter, 1908)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Milford Sound, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Antipodes and Bounty Islands
  • Powellisetia porcellanoides (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.35mm, Width 0.88mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Rangaunu Bay
  • Powellisetia retusa (Powell, 1927)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Doubtful Sound, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland Islands, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands
  • Powellisetia subcarinata (Powell, 1940)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands, and W of Cape Reinga
  • Powellisetia subgradata (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.7mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands to Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty
  • Powellisetia subtenuis (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.2mm, Width 0.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Rangitikei River mouth
  • Powellisetia tenuisculpta (Powell, 1933)
    Height 1.25mm, Width 0.75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island as far north as Milford Sound, and Stewart, Auckland, Antipodes and Bounty Islands
  • Powellisetia unicarinata (Powell, 1930)
    Height 1.19mm, Width 0.59mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank
  • Rissoa cylindrella Odhner, 1924
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands and northern tip of North Island
  • Simulamerelina gemmata Powell, 1927
    Height 2.9mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank
  • Striatestea bountyensis Powell, 1927
    Height 1.4mm, Width 0.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bounty Islands
  • Striatestea eulima Powell, 1940
    Height 1.45mm, Width 0.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Tom Bowling and Spirits Bays
  • Striatestea poutama Ponder, 1967
    Height 1.51mm, Width 0.63mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island
  • Subonoba alpha Powell, 1955
    Height 1.9mm, Width 1.17mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares and Antipodes Islands
  • Subonoba aupouria Powell, 1940
    Width 1.75mm, Height 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank and Three Kings Islands
  • Subonoba beta Powell, 1955
    Height 2.0mm, Width 1.16mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares Islands
  • Subonoba candidissima (Webster, 1905)
    Height 2.0mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern North Island as far south as Mahia
  • Subonoba delicatula Powell, 1933
    Height 1.9mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Waikouaiti Beach, and Auckland, Campbell, Bounty, Antipodes and Chatham Islands. In beach drift and dredged to over 150 metres
  • Subonoba delli (Ponder, 1968)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern North Island (Wellington), south-eastern South Island, and Stewart and Auckland Islands
  • Subonoba delta Powell, 1955
    Height 3.05mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Snares Islands
  • Subonoba edita Powell, 1939
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Milford Sound, and Stewart Island and Auckland Islands
  • Subonoba fallai Powell, 1955
    Height 2.25mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes and Bounty Islands
  • Subonoba foveauxiana (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern North Island (Wellington area), and South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands
  • Subonoba fumata (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.0mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
  • Subonoba gamma Powell, 1955
    Height 2.6mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Kaikoura, Stewart, Auckland and Snares Islands
  • Subonoba inornata Powell, 1933
    Height 1.92mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Banks Peninsula, and Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands
  • Subonoba insculpta (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern North Island (Wellington area), and South, Snares and Auckland Islands
  • Subonoba iredalei (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.0mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and northern Northland
  • Subonoba kermadecensis (Powell, 1927)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands (Raoul)
  • Subonoba morioria Powell, 1933
    Height 1.9mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands
  • Subonoba obliquata (Powell, 1940)
    Height 1.4mm, Width 0.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank
  • Subonoba oliveri Powell, 1955
    Height 2.4mm, Width 1.65mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Campbell Islands
  • Subonoba parvula Powell, 1931
    Height 1.3mm, Width 0.59mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern Northland
  • Subonoba paucicostata Powell, 1931
    Height 2.06mm, Width 1.16mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bounty Islands
  • Subonoba sorenseni Powell, 1955
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland and Campbell Islands
  • Subonoba tenuistriata Powell, 1933
    Height 2.0mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland Islands
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