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  • 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
  • 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 odhneri (Powell, 1927)
    Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island and Snares Island
  • 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 B.A. Marshall, 1979
    Height 10.7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North 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