Species List for Family: Cerithiopsidae
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- Alipta crenistria (Suter, 1907)
Height 12mm, Width 3.5mm
Marine, Endemic
Three Kings Islands, Far North, east coast of North and South Islands, Chatham Islands, and Stewart Island
ACFMAnE.
- Aliptina acheronae B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 1.6mm, Width 0.5mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 252-805 metres
AE.
- Cerithiopsidella blacki B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 4.9mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 622-805 metres
AE.
- Cerithiopsis powelli B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 4.2mm, Width 3.1mm
Marine, Endemic
Three Kings Islands to Mahia and East Cape, 0-102 metres
KACE. - Horologica cowei B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 3mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Endemic
Three Kings Islands, Northland, to Bay of Plenty, 29-102 metres
AE.
- Joculator sublima B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 2.5mm, Width 1.1mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 102-805 metres
AE.
- Mendax hebetatus B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 5.95mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 91-805 metres
AE.
- Mendax marginatus (Suter, 1908)
Height 2.7mm
Marine, Endemic
Three Kings Islands, North Island to East Cape, Snares Islands
AAnE. - Mendax seilaformis B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 3.25mm, Width 1.25mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 102 metres
AE.
- Mendax subapicinus (Dell, 1956)
Height 4.4mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Kaikoura to Otago, and Chatham Islands
FME.
- Mendax trizonalis (Odhner, 1924)
Height 4mm, Width 1.1mm
Marine, Endemic
Northland. Colville Channel, 65 metres
AE. 
- Mendax trizonaloides B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 3.5mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands and Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty, 102-805 metres
AE.
- Prolixodens benthica B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 3.2mm, Width 1.1mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 102-805 metres
AE.
- Prolixodens crassa B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 5.2mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Endemic
Three Kings Islands and north-east coast of North Island to Poor Knights Islands, 40-622 metres
AE. - Prolixodens infracolor (Laseron, 1951)
Height 4.5mm, Width 1.4mm
Marine
Northland east coast to Mahia, and west coast New Plymouth to Cook Strait
AC - Retilaskeya elegantula (Powell, 1930)
Height 8mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Endemic
North Island, Three Kings to East Cape
AE.
- Retilaskeya zelandica B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 15.8mm
Marine, Endemic
Three Kings Islands, east coast of North and South Islands, Cook Strait, Foveaux Strait, Stewart and Auckland Islands. In shell sand
ACFAnE.
- Seila bulbosa Suter, 1908
Height 13mm
Marine, Endemic
Otago to Stewart Island, off Chatham, Auckland, Campbell and Snares Islands
FMAnE. - Seila cincta (Hutton, 1866)
Height 11mm, Width 3.5mm
Marine, Endemic
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
ACME. - Seila dilecta B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 4.4mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, Bay of Islands, and off Mayor Island, 81-805 metres
AE. - Seila elegantissima B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 11.6mm, Width 2.1mm
Marine, Endemic
Bay of Islands and off Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty, 29-73 metres
AE.
- Seila maoria B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 7mm, Width 2.5mm
Marine, Endemic
North Island. North-east coast from Poor Knights Islands to Whale Island. In shell sand to 37 metres
AE. - Seila regia B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 17mm, Width 3.4mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 88-805 metres
AE.
- Seila terebelloides (Hutton, 1873)
Height 12mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Endemic
North, South, Stewart Island
ACFAnE.
- Socienna cracens regia B.A. Marshall, 1979
Height 7.5mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Endemic
North Island. Off Three Kings Islands
AE.
- Specula retifera (Suter, 1908)
Height 3.0mm, Width 1.0mm
Marine, Endemic
South Island, off Taiaroa Head, Otago. Stewart, Snares and Bounty Islands
FAnE. - Specula styliformis (Suter, 1908)
Height 3.5mm
Marine, Endemic
Three Kings Islands to South Island, Snares, Bounty, Auckland and Campbell Islands, 15-805 metres
ACFAnE.
- Sundaya tuberculata Powell, 1927
Height 2.2mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, north-east coast of North Island to East Cape, southern Fiordland, Stewart Island, and Pukaki Rise, in shell sand to 805 metres
KAFE. - Synthopsis acuminata B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 3.6mm, Width 0.95mm
Marine, Endemic
Three Kings Islands, Northland to Cook Strait
ACE.
- Synthopsis caelata (Powell, 1930)
Height 3.0mm, Width 0.95mm
Marine, Endemic
North Island. Three Kings Islands, Northland to Cook Strait
ACE.
- Synthopsis regia B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 2.5mm
Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 91-805 metres, and Ranfurly Bank, East Cape
AE.
- Tasmalira vitrea (Suter, 1908)
Height 4.0mm, Width 1.8mm
Marine, Endemic
Southern North Island and South Island
CFE.
- Zaclys murdochi B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 6mm, Width 2mm
Marine, Endemic
North, South and Stewart Island. Also recently recorded from the Chatham Islands
ACFME. - Zaclys sarissa (R. Murdoch, 1905)
Height 8mm, Width 2.5mm
Marine, Endemic
North, South Island, Snares, Bounty, Auckland and Antipodes Islands
AFAnE.
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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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