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  • Family: Naticidae

  • Falsilunatia ambigua (Suter, 1913)
    Height 18mm, Width 16mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern North and South Island, Antipodes Islands, Bounty Plateau and Chatham Rise, from 476-1722m
  • Falsilunatia amphiala (R.B. Watson, 1881)
    Height 20mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Rise, Chatham Islands, Off Eastern Otago
  • Falsilunatia powelli Dell, 1956
    Height 18mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Challenger Plateau, South Island, Campbell Plateau, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, and Chatham Rise, from 280-1077m
  • Falsilunatia subperforata Dell, 1956
    Height 10mm, Width 8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern Cook Strait, eastern South Island and Chatham Rise, from 366-732m
  • Globisinum drewi (Murdoch, 1899)
    Height 50mm, Width 50mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North and South Islands, Bounty Plateau and Chatham Rise, from 0-900m
  • Naticarius orientalis (Gmelin, 1791)
    Width 37mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific, Kermadec Islands, from 0-55m
  • Notocochlis cernica (Jousseaume, 1874)
    Height 20mm, Width 17mm
    Moon Snail, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Central Indian Ocean to Eastern Australia and the Philippines. NZ, Raoul and Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-78m
  • Notocochlis gualtieriana (Récluz, 1844)
    Height 30mm, Width 22mm
    Moon Snail, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    W Pacific, Raoul Island, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Great Barrier Island, from 0-37m
  • Proxiuber australe (Hutton, 1878)
    Height 7mm, Width 7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and northern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-310m
  • Proxiuber hulmei Powell, 1954
    Height 5mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula, from 59-207m
  • Tanea zelandica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
    Height 35mm, Width 32mm
    Necklace Shell, Moon Snail, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank, from 0-640m
  • Friginatica conjuncta Dell, 1953
    Height 8.5mm, Width 7.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island and Chatham Rise, from 302-660m
  • Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838)
    Height 36mm, Width 30mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic, In beach drift and alive from low tide
    Raoul Island, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-89m
  • Polinices putealis Garrard, 1961
    Height 27mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Eastern Australia, and Northern NZ. Wanganella Bank, Kermadec Islands, and North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 62-530m
  • Polinices tawhitirahia Powell, 1965
    Height 36mm, Width 32mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    North-eastern North Island as far south as Poor Knights Islands. Also Norfolk Islands, from 15-46m
  • Uberella alacris Dell, 1956
    Height 4.7mm, Width 5.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago, trawled from around 475-550 metres
  • Uberella barrierensis (Marwick, 1924)
    Height 5mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern and southern North Island, north-eastern South Island and eastern Chatham Rise, from 71-434m
  • Uberella denticulifera (Marwick, 1924)
    Height 9mm, Width 8mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North, South and Chatham Islands, from 18-660m
  • Uberella vitrea (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 8mm, Width 7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South, Stewart, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands, Pukaki Rise and Mernoo Bank, from 0-420m
  • Eunaticina papilla (Gmelin, 1791)
    Height 24mm
    Marine
    Haweran - Wanganui and East Cape. Occasional recent records from Bay of Islands and Northland
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