Quick Search
To Advanced Search
Species List for Family: Cerithiopsidae
toggle list/grid view >
Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order) > Triphoroidea (Superfamily) > Cerithiopsidae (Family)
Filter region:
(greyed out images not recorded from filtered region)
Click here to filter list on Geographical Range

  • Family: Cerithiopsidae

  • 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
    ACFMAn
  • Aliptina acheronae B.A. Marshall, 1978
    Height 1.6mm, Width 0.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 252-805 metres
    A
  • Cerithiopsidella blacki B.A. Marshall, 1978
    Height 4.9mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 622-805 metres
    A
  • 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
    KAC
  • Horologica cowei B.A. Marshall, 1978
    Height 3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, Northland, to Bay of Plenty, 29-102 metres
    A
  • Horologica dirempta (Odhner, 1924)
    Height 3mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland east coast
    A
  • Joculator sublima B.A. Marshall, 1978
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 102-805 metres
    A
  • Mendax hebetatus B.A. Marshall, 1978
    Height 5.95mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 91-805 metres
    A
  • Mendax marginatus (Suter, 1908)
    Height 2.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, North Island to East Cape, Snares Islands
    AAn
  • Mendax seilaformis B.A. Marshall, 1978
    Height 3.25mm, Width 1.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 102 metres
    A
  • Mendax subapicinus (Dell, 1956)
    Height 4.4mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Kaikoura to Otago, and Chatham Islands
    FM
  • Mendax trizonalis (Odhner, 1924)
    Height 4mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland. Colville Channel, 65 metres
    A
  • Mendax odhneri (Powell, 1927)
    Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island and Snares Island
    FAn
  • 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
    A
  • Prolixodens benthica B.A. Marshall, 1978
    Height 3.2mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 102-805 metres
    A
  • 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
    A
  • 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, Native - Endemic
    North Island, Three Kings to East Cape
    A
  • 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
    ACFAn
  • Seila bulbosa Suter, 1908
    Height 13mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Otago to Stewart Island, off Chatham, Auckland, Campbell and Snares Islands
    FMAn
  • Seila cincta (Hutton, 1866)
    Height 11mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
    ACM
  • 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
    A
  • 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
    A
  • 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
    A
  • Seila regia B.A. Marshall, 1978
    Height 17mm, Width 3.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 88-805 metres
    A
  • Seila terebelloides (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 12mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart Island
    ACFAn
  • Socienna cracens B.A. Marshall, 1979
    Height 10.7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island
    AC
  • Socienna cracens regia B.A. Marshall, 1979
    Height 7.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island. Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Specula campbellica (Powell, 1955)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.15mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Campbell Islands
    An
  • Specula retifera (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island, off Taiaroa Head, Otago. Stewart, Snares and Bounty Islands
    FAn
  • 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
    ACFAn
  • Sundaya exquisita W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Height 1.0mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, On gravel
    Kermadec Islands, 10-30 meters
    K
  • 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
    KAF
  • Synthopsis acuminata B.A. Marshall, 1978
    Height 3.6mm, Width 0.95mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, Northland to Cook Strait
    AC
  • Synthopsis caelata (Powell, 1930)
    Height 3.0mm, Width 0.95mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island. Three Kings Islands, Northland to Cook Strait
    AC
  • Synthopsis regia B.A. Marshall, 1978
    Height 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 91-805 metres, and Ranfurly Bank, East Cape
    A
  • Tasmalira vitrea (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4.0mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern North Island and South Island
    CF
  • 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
    ACFM
  • Zaclys sarissa (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 8mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South Island, Snares, Bounty, Auckland and Antipodes Islands
    AFAn
Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing 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