Species List for Family: Cerithiopsidae
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- Alipta crenistria (Suter, 1907)
Height 12mm, Width 3.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands, Far North, east coast of North and South Islands, Chatham Islands, and Stewart Island
- Aliptina acheronae B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 1.6mm, Width 0.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 252-805 metres
- Cerithiopsidella blacki B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 4.9mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 622-805 metres
- Cerithiopsis powelli B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 4.2mm, Width 3.1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands to Mahia and East Cape, 0-102 metres - Horologica cowei B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 3mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands, Northland, to Bay of Plenty, 29-102 metres
- Horologica dirempta (Odhner, 1924)
Height 3mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northland east coast - Joculator sublima B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 2.5mm, Width 1.1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 102-805 metres
- Mendax hebetatus B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 5.95mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 91-805 metres
- Mendax marginatus (Suter, 1908)
Height 2.7mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands, North Island to East Cape, Snares Islands - Mendax seilaformis B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 3.25mm, Width 1.25mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 102 metres
- Mendax subapicinus (Dell, 1956)
Height 4.4mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Kaikoura to Otago, and Chatham Islands
- Mendax trizonalis (Odhner, 1924)
Height 4mm, Width 1.1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northland. Colville Channel, 65 metres 
- Mendax trizonaloides B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 3.5mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands and Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty, 102-805 metres
- Prolixodens benthica B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 3.2mm, Width 1.1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 102-805 metres
- Prolixodens crassa B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 5.2mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands and north-east coast of North Island to Poor Knights Islands, 40-622 metres - Prolixodens infracolor (Laseron, 1951)
Height 4.5mm, Width 1.4mm
Marine
Northland east coast to Mahia, and west coast New Plymouth to Cook Strait - Retilaskeya elegantula (Powell, 1930)
Height 8mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga and Ranfurly Bank
- Retilaskeya zelandica B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 15.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands, east coast of North and South Islands, Cook Strait, Foveaux Strait, Stewart and Auckland Islands. In shell sand
- Seila bulbosa Suter, 1908
Height 13mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Otago to Stewart Island, off Chatham, Auckland, Campbell and Snares Islands - Seila cincta (Hutton, 1866)
Height 11mm, Width 3.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
- Seila dilecta B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 4.4mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, Bay of Islands, and off Mayor Island, 81-805 metres - Seila elegantissima B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 11.6mm, Width 2.1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Bay of Islands and off Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty, 29-73 metres
- Seila maoria B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 7mm, Width 2.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island. North-east coast from Poor Knights Islands to Whale Island. In shell sand to 37 metres - Seila regia B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 17mm, Width 3.4mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 88-805 metres
- Seila terebelloides (Hutton, 1873)
Height 12mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North, South, Stewart Island
- Socienna cracens regia B.A. Marshall, 1979
Height 7.5mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island. Off Three Kings Islands
- Specula campbellica (Powell, 1955)
Height 2.5mm, Width 1.15mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Campbell Islands
- Specula retifera (Suter, 1908)
Height 3.0mm, Width 1.0mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South Island, off Taiaroa Head, Otago. Stewart, Snares and Bounty Islands - Specula styliformis (Suter, 1908)
Height 3.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands to South Island, Snares, Bounty, Auckland and Campbell Islands, 15-805 metres
- Sundaya exquisita W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
Height 1.0mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, On gravel
Kermadec Islands, 10-30 meters - Sundaya tuberculata Powell, 1927
Height 2.2mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Native - 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 - Synthopsis acuminata B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 3.6mm, Width 0.95mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands, Northland to Cook Strait
- Synthopsis caelata (Powell, 1930)
Height 3.0mm, Width 0.95mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island. Three Kings Islands, Northland to Cook Strait
- Synthopsis regia B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 2.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 91-805 metres, and Ranfurly Bank, East Cape
- Tasmalira vitrea (Suter, 1908)
Height 4.0mm, Width 1.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern North Island and South Island
- Zaclys murdochi B.A. Marshall, 1978
Height 6mm, Width 2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North, South and Stewart Island. Also recently recorded from the Chatham Islands - Zaclys sarissa (R. Murdoch, 1905)
Height 8mm, Width 2.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North, South Island, Snares, Bounty, Auckland and Antipodes Islands
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
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