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  • Family: Lironobidae

  • Attenuata affinis (Powell, 1940)
    Height 2.05mm, Width 1.09mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and off Cape Reinga and Cape Maria van Diemen
  • Attenuata affinis orientalis (Dell, 1956)
    Height 2.2mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands
  • Attenuata bollonsi (Powell, 1930)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island
  • Attenuata cochlearella (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.9mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Poor Knights Islands
  • Attenuata contigua (Powell, 1940)
    Height 1.58mm, Width 0.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and off Cape Maria van Diemen, Cape Reinga and Tom Bowling Bay
  • Attenuata finlayi (Powell, 1930)
    Height 2.2mm, Width 1.05mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island as far south as Mayor Island
  • Attenuata hinemoa (Fleming, 1948)
    Height 2.2mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Fiordland
  • Attenuata manawatawhia (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.1mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, northern North Island and western South Island
  • Attenuata merelina (Dell, 1956)
    Height 2.7mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island and Auckland Islands
  • Attenuata regis (Powell, 1940)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Bay of Islands
  • Lironoba anomala Powell, 1940
    Height 1.4mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, Tom Bowling Bay, and Bay of Islands
  • Lironoba elegans E.C. Smith, 1962
    Height 1.66mm, Width 0.92mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island, Stewart Island and Auckland Islands
  • Lironoba matai Dell, 1952
    Height 1.18mm, Width 0.72mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Mernoo Bank, south-eastern South Island and Snares Islands
  • Lironoba suteri (Hedley, 1904)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Mernoo Bank and southern South Island, Stewart, Snares and Auckland Islands
  • Merelina cochleata Powell, 1937
    Height 1.6mm, Width 0.87mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank, Three Kings and W of Cape Reinga
  • Merelina compacta Powell, 1927
    Height 1.35mm, Width 0.65mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank
  • Merelina coronata (Powell, 1926)
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as The Aldermen Islands
  • Merelina crassissima Powell, 1937
    Height 1.5mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands and W of Cape Reinga
  • Merelina crispulata Powell, 1937
    Height 1.65mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern Norfolk Ridge, Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and W of Cape Reinga
  • Merelina crosseaformis (Powell, 1926)
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank
  • Merelina foliata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 2.0mm, Width 0.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Milford Sound, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands
  • Merelina harrisonae Powell, 1939
    Height 3.4mm, Width 1.55mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Living intertidally
    Stewart Island
  • Merelina lacunosa (Powell, 1940)
    Height 2.2mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Rangaunu Bay
  • Merelina lyalliana (Suter, 1898)
    Height 2.9mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, North Island, and South Island as far south as Christchurch
  • Merelina manawatawhia Powell, 1937
    Height 1.75mm, Width 0.98mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands and off North Cape
  • Merelina maoriana Powell, 1939
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Chatham Islands
  • Merelina paupereques Powell, 1937
    Height 2.1mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, W of Cape Reinga, and off Poor Knights Islands
  • Merelina plaga Finlay, 1926
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island as far north as Haast, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank
  • Merelina rubiginosa Ponder, 1967
    Height 2.16mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island as far south as Whakatane
  • Merelina superba Powell, 1927
    Height 3.6mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as White Island
  • Merelina taupoensis Powell, 1939
    Height 2.8mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula
  • Merelina tricarinata (Powell, 1937)
    Height 1.4mm, Width 0.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and off White Island (subfossil)
  • Merelina waitangiensis Powell, 1933
    Height 4.4mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham 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