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  • Family: Calyptraeidae

  • Grandicrepidula collinae B.A. Marshall, 2003
    Length 48mm, Width 22mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Eastern Northland southward to the Snares. Found behind outer lip of living or dead/hermit-crab Gastropod shells, 175-590 metres
    ACFE.
  • Maoricrypta costata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1824)
    Length 60mm, Width 40mm
    Ribbed Slipper Shell, Marine, Endemic
    Northland to Mahia, living intertidally to 47 metres, attached to undersides of rocks and on living Perna canaliculus
    ACE.
  • Maoricrypta kopua (B.A. Marshall, 2003)
    Length 28mm
    Marine, Endemic, Animal whitish, translucent
    Three Kings Islands to East Cape, 78-805 metres. Living within apertures of dead/hermit crabbed Gastropods
    AE.
  • Maoricrypta monoxyla (Lesson, 1831)
    Length 30mm, Width 25mm
    Smooth Slipper Shell, Marine, Endemic, Yellow animal, consistently lives on the outside of shells
    North Cape to Cape Runaway, intertidal to about 15 metres
    ACE.
  • Maoricrypta sodalis B.A. Marshall, 2003
    Length 37mm, Width 20mm
    Marine, Endemic, White animal. Typically found within apertures of dead gastropods
    North, South, Stewart, and Snares Islands, intertidally to 925 metres
    ACFE.
  • Maoricrypta youngi Powell, 1940
    Length 29mm, Width 22mm, Height 8mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North Cape to Cook Strait, living on Gastropods, at low tide to 88 metres
    ACE.
  • Sigapatella novaezelandiae (Lesson, 1831)
    Length 42mm, Height 25mm
    Circular Slipper Shell, Marine, Endemic
    North, South, Stewart, Chatham, Auckland, Snares and Campbell Islands. Living intertidally to 200 metres, attached to hard substrate
    ACFMAnE.
  • Sigapatella spadicea Boshier, 1961
    Length 21mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Endemic, Spinose surface periostracum/epidermis
    North, South and Stewart Island. 4-533 metres attached to hard substrate/shells
    ACFE.
  • Sigapatella superstes Fleming, 1958
    Length 30mm, Height 12mm
    Marine, Endemic, Granulose surface pattern
    Off Three Kings Islands and off Northern tip of North Island. (1 juvenile off Aldermen Islands), 0-805 metres
    AE.
  • Sigapatella tenuis (Gray, 1867)
    Length 23mm, Height 10mm
    Marine, Endemic, Oblique spiral threads on the teleoconch, smooth periostracum when not worn off
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. 0-604 metres, attached to hard substrate
    ACFME.
  • Sigapatella terraenovae Peile, 1924
    Length 34mm, Height 20mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, Far North and Ranfurly Bank, East Cape. Attached to hard substrate, 27-93 metres
    ACE.
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