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Species List for Family: Austrosiphonidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Austrosiphonidae (Family)
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  • Family: Austrosiphonidae

  • Antarctoneptunea aurora (Hedley, 1916)
    Marine
    Ross Sea, Antarctica
  • Antarctoneptunea benthicola Dell, 1956
    Height 100mm, Width 40mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Deep water off North,South, Stewart Island and Chatham Rise
  • Penion chathamensis (Powell, 1938)
    Height 244mm, Width 106mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Rise to Chatham Islands, trawled around 400-450 metres
  • Penion cuvierianus (Powell, 1927)
    Height 220mm, Width 85mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island to Cook Strait and Tasman Bay
  • Penion lineatus Marshall, Hills & Vaux, 2018
    Marine
    King Bank, Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands and northwest of Cape Reinga
  • Penion ormesi (Powell, 1927)
    Height 200mm, Width 75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Slender with tall spire
    From Northland down to Cape Campbell and Cook Strait
  • Penion sulcatus (Lamarck, 1816)
    Height 165mm, Width 65mm
    Siphon Whelk, Marine, Native - Endemic
    North and South Islands, intertidal to about 50 fathoms
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