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Species List for Family: Assimineidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Truncatelloidea (Superfamily) > Assimineidae (Family)
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  • Family: Assimineidae

  • Assiminea vulgaris (Webster, 1905)
    Height 3.5mm, Width 2.0mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Northland to Auckland. Splash zone and high tide
    KAE.
  • Suterilla climoi Fukuda, Ponder & Marshall, 2006
    Marine, Endemic, Under stones on boulder beaches
    Three Kings Islands, and upper North Island
    E.
  • Suterilla imperforata Fukuda, Ponder & Marshall, 2006
    Height 2.5mm, Width 2.0mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North Island. Waihau Bay, SW of Cape Runaway. Among supralittoral stones with decaying algae
    AE.
  • Suterilla neozelanica (Murdoch, 1988)
    Height 2.75mm, Width 2.3mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, Northland to Napier and Chatham Islands. In splash zone
    ACME.
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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil