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  • Family: Calyptraeidae

  • Grandicrepidula collinae B.A. Marshall, 2003
    Length 48mm, Width 22mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern Northland southward to the Snares. Found behind outer lip of living or dead/hermit-crab Gastropod shells, 175-590 metres
  • Maoricrypta costata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1824)
    Length 60mm, Width 40mm
    Ribbed Slipper Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mahia, living intertidally to 47 metres, attached to undersides of rocks and on living Perna canaliculus
  • Maoricrypta kopua (B.A. Marshall, 2003)
    Length 28mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Animal whitish, translucent
    Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank. Approx. 80-800 metres. Living within apertures of dead/hermit crabbed Gastropods
  • Maoricrypta monoxyla (Lesson, 1831)
    Length 30mm, Width 25mm
    Smooth Slipper Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic, Yellow animal, consistently lives on the outside of shells
    Northern North Island as far south-east as Cape Runaway, intertidal to about 15 metres
  • Maoricrypta sodalis B.A. Marshall, 2003
    Length 37mm, Width 20mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, White animal. Typically found within apertures of dead gastropods
    North, South, Stewart and Snares Island, intertidally to 925 metres
  • Maoricrypta youngi Powell, 1940
    Length 29mm, Width 22mm, Height 8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Cape to Cook Strait, living on Gastropods, at low tide to 88 metres
  • Sigapatella novaezelandiae (Lesson, 1831)
    Length 42mm, Height 25mm
    Circular Slipper Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Bounty and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank. Living intertidally to 200 metres, attached to hard substrate
  • Sigapatella spadicea Boshier, 1961
    Length 21mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Spinose surface periostracum/epidermis
    North, South and Stewart Island. 4-533 metres attached to hard substrate/shells
  • Sigapatella superstes Fleming, 1958
    Length 30mm, Height 12mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Granulose surface pattern
    Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as The Aldermen Islands. 0-805 metres
  • Sigapatella tenuis (Gray, 1867)
    Length 23mm, Height 10mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Oblique spiral threads on the teleoconch, smooth periostracum when not worn off
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank. 0-604 metres, attached to hard substrate
  • Sigapatella terraenovae Peile, 1924
    Length 34mm, Height 20mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, Far North and Ranfurly Bank, East Cape. Living attached to hard substrate, 27-93 metres
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