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  • Family: Cymatiidae

  • Argobuccinum pustulosum (Lightfoot, 1786)
    Height 136mm, Width 95mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic, Low tide to about 120 metres, more common in south
    North, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank
  • Austrosassia parkinsonia (Perry, 1811)
    Height 58mm, Width 29mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Non-endemic, Below low water to about 65 metres
    South-eastern Australia, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and northern New Zealand. King Bank, Raoul and Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula
  • Cabestana spengleri (Perry, 1811)
    Height 188mm, Width 115mm
    Spenglers Trumpet, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Eastern and south-eastern Australia, and New Zealand. Raoul, Three Kings, North, South and Chatham Islands
  • Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
    Height 91mm, Width 52mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic, Lives on solitary ascidians
    Australia, Lord Howe Island and New Zealand. Raoul Island, North Island, northern South Island and Chatham Islands
  • Cymatona kampyla (R.B. Watson, 1883)
    Height 55mm, Width 27mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Chile, southern Africa, southern Australia and New Zealand. Kermadec Ridge, Three Kings Islands, North and South Island, Macquarie Ridge, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, and Chatham Rise
  • Fusitriton laudandus Finlay, 1926
    Height 157mm, Width 72mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Lord Howe Rise, Louisville Ridge and New Zealand. Southern Norfolk Ridge, West Norfolk Ridge, NW and W of Cape Reinga, eastern North Island, South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Bounty, Antipodes and Chatham Islands, Challenger Plateau, Pukaki Rise and Chatham Rise
  • Linatella caudata (Gmelin, 1791)
    Height 50mm (NZ), Height Up to 100mm overseas
    Marine
    Northland. Occasionally empty shells washed up on east coast beaches
  • Monoplex exaratus (Reeve, 1844)
    Height 60mm, Width 36mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Western Pacific, Hawaii, Red Sea, South Africa, and West Atlantic. Raoul Island and Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula
  • Monoplex nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic, Dead specimens from intertidal to 15 metres
    Indo-West Pacific, Red Sea and Atlantic. Kermadec Islands (Raoul)
  • Monoplex parthenopeus (von Salis, 1793)
    Height 142mm, Width 80mm
    Hairy Trumpet, Marine
    Indo-West Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean. Raoul Island, North Island, far northern and south-western South Island, and Chatham Islands
  • Proxicharonia palmeri Powell, 1967
    Height 73mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    New Zealand and Lord Howe Island. West Norfolk Ridge, Kermadec Ridge, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Gisborne
  • Ranularia dunkeri (Lischke, 1868)
    Height 97mm, Width 52mm
    Marine
    South-east Asia, south-west Pacific and Raoul Island. Kermadec Islands and western Bay of Plenty
  • Sassia remensa (Iredale, 1936)
    Height 40mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Eastern Australia (from 100-600 metres), New Zealand (300-400 metres), and from deep sea dredging around New Caledonia, Vanuatu and in the Coral Sea. Northern NZ to Bay of Plenty in deep water
  • Turritriton labiosus (W. Wood, 1828)
    Height 30mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Kermadec Islands (Raoul) and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Lottin Point. Also Indo-West Pacific, Japan, Philippines, Fiji and Australia
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