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  • Family: Rissoidae

  • Alvania abrupta (Dell, 1956)
    Height 2mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Taiaroa Canyon, off Otago Peninsula, 550 metres
    F
  • Alvania aupouria (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.05mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Alvania bountyensis (Dell, 1950)
    Height 2.15mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Bounty Islands
    An
  • Alvania exserta (Suter, 1908)
    Height 2.6mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Otago Heads. Off Snares, Auckland and Campbell Islands
    FAn
  • Alvania gallinacea (Finlay, 1930)
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland offshore Islands
    A
  • Alvania gradatoides (Finlay, 1930)
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Oamaru
    F
  • Alvania kermadecensis (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Alvania maclurgi (Powell, 1933)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 1.05mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham and Bounty Islands
    MAn
  • Alvania pinguis (Webster, 1906)
    Height 2mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland. Off Great Barrier Island, 200 metres
    A
  • Alvania pinguoides (Powell, 1940)
    Height 2.3mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands to Northland
    A
  • Alvania solitaria (Dell, 1956)
    Height 2.4mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham Islands, trawled in approximately 240 metres
    M
  • Alvania venusta (Powell, 1926)
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Lyttelton and off Chatham Rise
    CM
  • Haurakia crassicosta Powell, 1955
    Height 2.45mm, Width 1.55mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Stewart Island, Snares and Auckland Islands
    FAn
  • Haurakia finlayi Powell, 1937
    Height 2.9mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Haurakia hamiltoni (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Throughout NZ and Chatham Islands
    ACFM
  • Haurakia huttoni (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern part of South Island, Stewart and Snares Islands
    FAn
  • Haurakia infecta (Suter, 1908)
    Height 1.75mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Throughout NZ and Chatham Islands
    ACFM
  • Haurakia latiambita (Ponder, 1967)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty
    A
  • Haurakia minuscula Powell, 1955
    Height 2.05mm, Width 1.34mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Auckland Islands
    FAn
  • Haurakia mobilicosta (Ponder, 1967)
    Height 1.59mm, Width 1.95mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Cape Kidnappers
    AC
  • Haurakia otagoensis (Dell, 1956)
    Height 2.6mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Taiaroa Canyon, off Otago Peninsula
    F
  • Haurakia pellucida (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.6mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Haurakia semireticulata (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 3.3mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland to Bay of Plenty
    A
  • Haurakia sinuastoma (Ponder, 1967)
    Height 1.0mm, Width 0.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North
    A
  • Haurakia subsuturalis Dell, 1956
    Height 2.3mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Eastern Otago
    F
  • Haurakia wallacei (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Onoba analoga (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 0.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Onoba delli (Ponder, 1968)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Lower North Island. In shell sand
    C
  • Onoba duplicata (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.85mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Onoba elegans (Ponder, 1965)
    Height 3.1mm, Width 2.15mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland
    A
  • Onoba exuta (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.65mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Onoba lubrica (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.2mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South of South Island and Stewart Island
    FMAn
  • Onoba paupereques (Finlay, 1926)
    Height 2.4mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Poor Knights Islands and Northland
    A
  • Onoba simplex (Powell, 1927)
    Height 2.0mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Puysegur Point, Fiordland
    F
  • Powellisetia australis (R.B. Watson, 1886)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.45mm
    Marine
    Sub-Antarctic Islands, deep
    An
  • Powellisetia bilirata Ponder, 1965
    Height 1.05mm, Width 0.68mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland
    A
  • Powellisetia crassilabrum (Powell, 1940)
    Height 1.29mm, Width 1.09mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland
    A
  • Powellisetia gradata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 1.65mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Otago, Stewart, Snares and Bounty Islands
    FAn
  • Powellisetia lineata (E.C. Smith, 1962)
    Height 1.4mm, Width 0.96mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Low tide in algae
    Stewart Island
    F
  • Powellisetia microstriata (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 2.07mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Deep water off South Island, Snares and Bounty Islands
    FAn
  • Powellisetia porcellana (Suter, 1908)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off south of the South Island and Snares Islands
    FAn
  • Powellisetia porcellanoides (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.35mm, Width 0.88mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands to Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty
    A
  • Powellisetia retusa (Powell, 1927)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South of South Island, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands
    FMAn
  • Powellisetia subgradata (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.7mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands to Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty
    A
  • Powellisetia subtenuis (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.2mm, Width 0.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Throughout NZ
    ACFMAn
  • Powellisetia tenuisculpta (Powell, 1933)
    Height 1.25mm, Width 0.75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South of South Island. Stewart and Bounty Islands
    FAn
  • Powellisetia unicarinata (Powell, 1930)
    Height 1.19mm, Width 0.59mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Bay of Plenty
    A
  • Rissoa cylindrella Odhner, 1924
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North
    A
  • Simulamerelina gemmata Powell, 1927
    Height 2.9mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland east coast
    A
  • Simulamerelina sp. aff. longinqua (Rehder, 1980)
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Striatestea bountyensis Powell, 1927
    Height 1.4mm, Width 0.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South of Bounty Islands
    An
  • Striatestea eulima Powell, 1940
    Height 1.45mm, Width 0.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North
    A
  • Striatestea poutama Ponder, 1967
    Height 1.51mm, Width 0.63mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island. Poutama Island, South Cape
    F
  • Subonoba alpha Powell, 1955
    Height 1.9mm, Width 1.17mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares and Antipodes Islands
    FAn
  • Subonoba aupouria Powell, 1940
    Width 1.75mm, Height 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Between Spirits Bay and Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Subonoba beta Powell, 1955
    Height 2.0mm, Width 1.16mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares Islands
    F
  • Subonoba candidissima (Webster, 1905)
    Height 2.0mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mahia
    AC
  • Subonoba delicatula Powell, 1933
    Height 1.9mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland Islands. In beach drift and dredged to over 25 metres
    An
  • Subonoba delta Powell, 1955
    Height 3.05mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares Islands
    An
  • Subonoba edita Powell, 1939
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island and Fiordland
    F
  • Subonoba fallai Powell, 1955
    Height 2.25mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland, Campbell and Antipodes Islands
    An
  • Subonoba foveauxiana (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Otago and Stewart Island
    FAn
  • Subonoba fumata (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.0mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Chathams and Auckland Islands
    ACFMAn
  • Subonoba gamma Powell, 1955
    Height 2.6mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares Islands
    FAn
  • Subonoba inornata Powell, 1933
    Height 1.92mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Wellington, South Island, Snares and Chatham Islands
    CFMAn
  • Subonoba insculpta (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Wellington, Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island, Snares, Auckland and Bounty Islands
    CFAn
  • Subonoba iredalei (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.0mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Subonoba kermadecensis (Powell, 1927)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Subonoba morioria Powell, 1933
    Height 1.9mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands
    M
  • Subonoba obliquata (Powell, 1940)
    Height 1.4mm, Width 0.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North
    A
  • Subonoba oliveri Powell, 1955
    Height 2.4mm, Width 1.65mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Campbell Islands
    An
  • Subonoba parvula Powell, 1931
    Height 1.3mm, Width 0.59mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Awanui Heads, Northland
    A
  • Subonoba paucicostata Powell, 1931
    Height 2.06mm, Width 1.16mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Bounty Islands
    An
  • Subonoba sorenseni Powell, 1955
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Campbell, Auckland and Antipodes Islands
    An
  • Subonoba tenuistriata Powell, 1933
    Height 2.0mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Auckland Islands
    An
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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil