Species List for Family: Calyptraeidae
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- 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
ACF
- 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
AC
- Maoricrypta kopua (B.A. Marshall, 2003)
Length 28mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, Animal whitish, translucent
Three Kings Islands to East Cape, 78-805 metres. Living within apertures of dead/hermit crabbed Gastropods
A
- Maoricrypta monoxyla (Lesson, 1831)
Length 30mm, Width 25mm
Smooth Slipper Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic, Yellow animal, consistently lives on the outside of shells
North Cape to Cape Runaway, intertidal to about 15 metres
AC
- 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 Islands, intertidally to 925 metres
ACF
- 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
AC
- Sigapatella novaezelandiae (Lesson, 1831)
Length 42mm, Height 25mm
Circular Slipper Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
North, South, Stewart, Chatham, Auckland, Snares and Campbell Islands. Living intertidally to 200 metres, attached to hard substrate
ACFMAn
- 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
ACF
- Sigapatella superstes Fleming, 1958
Length 30mm, Height 12mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, Granulose surface pattern
Off Three Kings Islands and off Northern tip of North Island. (1 juvenile off Aldermen Islands), 0-805 metres
A
- Sigapatella tenuis (Gray, 1867)
Length 23mm, Height 10mm
Marine, Native - 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
ACFM
- Sigapatella terraenovae Peile, 1924
Length 34mm, Height 20mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, Far North and Ranfurly Bank, East Cape. Attached to hard substrate, 27-93 metres
AC
Key to 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
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