Species List for Family: Rissoidae
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- 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 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 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 semireticulata (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Height 3.3mm, Width 1.7mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island and Chatham Rise
- 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 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 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 subsuturalis Dell, 1956
Height 2.3mm, Width 1.4mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island
- 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 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 
- 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 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 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 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 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
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