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  • Family: Eulimidae

  • Aclis expansa (Powell, 1930)
    Height 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland
    A
  • Aclis maoria Powell, 1937
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Aclis pseudopareora Powell, 1940
    Height 3.2mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast, to upper South Island
    AC
  • Aclis subcarinata (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 2.9mm, Width 1.04mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off North Cape and North Island east coast
    A
  • Aclis terebra (Powell, 1930)
    Height 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Poor Knights Islands
    A
  • Annulobalcis marshalli Warén, 1981
    Height 17mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island. Off Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty
    A
  • Asterophila sp. Warén & Lewis, 1994
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Trench
    K
  • Awanuia dilatata Powell, 1927
    Height 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Auckland
    A
  • Awanuia porcellana Ponder, 1967
    Height 3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mahia
    AC
  • Chileutomia neozelanica Powell, 1940
    Height 5mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Between Spirits Bay and Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Curveulima aupouria (Powell, 1937)
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, Northland to Mahia
    AC
  • Curveulima bollonsi (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North of North Cape
    A
  • Curveulima otakauica (Dell, 1956)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago, 475-640 metres
    FAn
  • Curveulima titahica (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Wellington
    AC
  • Eulima perspicua (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
    Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadecs. Northland east coast
    KAC
  • Fuscapex ophioacanthicola Warén, 1981
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Parasitic on Ophioacantha sp
    Kermadec Islands, 1189-1225 metres
    K
  • Fusceulima goodingi Warén, 1981
    Height 3.3mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island. Off Poor Knights Islands, on ecinoid Centrostephanus rodgersi (A. Agassiz)
    A
  • Fusceulima mangonuica (Powell, 1940)
    Height 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland east coast
    A
  • Fusceulima murdochi (Hedley, 1904)
    Height 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Wellington to Foveaux Strait
    CF
  • Hypermastus bulbulus (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 13mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast
    AR.Fo.
  • Larochella alta Powell, 1927
    Height 1.5mm, Width 0.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, southern South Island, Stewart Island and Chatham Islands. 0-800 metres
    ACFM
  • Larochella toreuma Powell, 1927
    Height 1.25mm, Width 0.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and southern North Island, western South Island, Stewart Island and Chatham Islands. 0-33 metres
    ACFM
  • Melanella alertae (Dell, 1956)
    Height 4.5mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago
    F
  • Melanella archeyi (Finlay, 1928)
    Height 5.75mm, Width 2.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southland, southern fiords and Chatham Islands. 10-238 metres
    FM
  • Melanella aucklandica (Suter, 1909)
    Height 6.5mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham, Auckland, Bounty and Antipodes Islands
    MAn
  • Melanella hadalis Knudsen, 1964
    Height 4.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Trench, S of Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Melanella kermadecensis W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Melanella luminosa B.A. Marshall, 1997
    Height 5.75mm, Width 2.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Animal bioluminescent
    Southern Fiords, 10-283 metres, parasitic on the red (carnleyensis) form of the holothurian Ocnus brevidentis (Hutton, 1872)
    F
  • Melanella maoria (Powell, 1940)
    Height 19mm, Width 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North
    A
  • Melanella maui (Dell, 1952)
    Height 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Tasman Sea, off west coast North Island
    C
  • Melanella otagoensis (Powell, 1927)
    Height 2.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Puysegur Point, Fiordland
    F
  • Melanella oxyacme (Suter, 1908)
    Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland
    A
  • Melanella paxillus (Hedley, 1904)
    Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Foveaux Strait
    F
  • Melanella perplexa W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Melanella puhana Dell, 1956
    Height 6mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago and Chatham Islands
    FM
  • Melanella spinosa W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Melanella truncata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North
    A
  • Melanella vegrandis (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 7mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Great Barrier Island, Northland
    A
  • Ophieulima fuscoapicata Warén, 1981
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Pelseneeria bountyensis (Powell, 1933)
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Stewart and Bounty Islands
    FAn
  • Pelseneeria secunda (Powell, 1940)
    Height 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Pictobalcis articulata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
    Height 30mm, Width 9mm
    Marine
    Northland east coast, NZ. Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Norfolk Island
    A
  • Punctifera ophiomoerae Warén, 1981
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Parasitic on Ophiomoeris obstricta
    Off Kermadec Islands, 1189-1225 metres
    K
  • Pyramidelloides pagoda (Powell, 1926)
    Height 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings to Northland
    A
  • Pyramidelloides suteri (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Ruapukea allanae E.C. Smith, 1962
    Height 1.5mm, Width 0.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island. Off Poutama Island, South Cape
    F
  • Ruapukea carolus Dell, 1952
    Height 1.5mm, Width 0.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Foveaux Strait
    F
  • Sabinella infrapatula (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 5mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland. Great Barrier Island
    A
  • Scalaronoba costata Powell, 1927
    Height 0.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Puysegur Point, Fiordland
    F
  • Scalaronoba secunda Powell, 1940
    Height 0.8mm, Width 0.45mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off North Cape to Cook Strait
    AC
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