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  • Family: Columbellidae

  • Antimitrella laxa Powell, 1937
    Height 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
  • Aoteatilia acicula (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Foveaux Strait and Snares Islands. Also recently recorded from the Chatham Islands
  • Aoteatilia amphipsila (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares Islands, 110 metres
  • Aoteatilia larochei Powell, 1940
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mahia
  • Aoteatilia psila (Suter, 1908)
    Height 6mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands and Northland
  • Aoteatilia substriata (Suter, 1899)
    Height 5.5mm, Width 2.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Otago, Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island
  • Aoteatilia tenuistriata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 6mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Only known from the holotye, which has a broken protoconch
    Off Snares Islands 90 metres
  • Euplica varians (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
    Height 10mm
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
  • Exomilopsis hipkinsi Powell, 1964
    Height 8.5mm, Width 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North and off Three Kings Islands, and Ranfurly Bank, East Cape
  • Graphicomassa ligula (Duclos, 1840)
    Height 15mm
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
  • Liratilia compta Powell, 1930
    Height 5mm, Width 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland east coast to Mahia
  • Liratilia conquisita (Suter, 1907)
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands to Foveaux Strait, and Snares Islands
  • Liratilia conquisita chathamensis Dell, 1956
    Height 3mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham Islands 230 metres
  • Liratilia conquisita gracilis Powell, 1940
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Awanui Heads
  • Liratilia elegantula Powell, 1937
    Height 4.6mm, Width 1.75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
  • Liratilia isolata Dell, 1956
    Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham Islands 230 metres
  • Liratilia sinuata Powell, 1937
    Height 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands and Northland
  • Liratilia subnodosa Powell, 1934
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland
  • Macrozafra cophinodes (Suter, 1908)
    Height 7mm, Width 3.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island as far north as Otago Peninsula, and Stewart, Snares, Campbell and Antipodes Islands
  • Macrozafra enwrighti Powell, 1940
    Height 3.6mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Island, off Cape Maria van Diemen, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank
  • Macrozafra mariae Powell, 1940
    Height 8.5mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands and off Cape Maria van Diemen
  • Macrozafra nodicincta (Suter, 1899)
    Height 7.5mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, north-eastern and south-western North Island, and far northern South Island (D’Urville Island)
  • Macrozafra subabnormis (Suter, 1899)
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, northern North Island as far south as Ahipara on west coast and Ranfurly Bank on east coast, Wellington Harbour, north-eastern South Island, south-western South Island, Stewart Island and Chatham Islands
  • Macrozafra vivens (Powell, 1934)
    Height 12mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island, from Whangarei to Lottin Point and Tolaga Bay
  • Paxula allani Finlay, 1928
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands
  • Paxula leptalea (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4.5mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Bounty and Campbell Islands
  • Paxula paxillus (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 6mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern North Island (Wellington), South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
  • Paxula subantarctica (Suter, 1908)
    Height 6mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island as far north as off Otago Peninsula (Karitani Canyon), Foveaux Strait, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Bounty and Antipodes Islands, and Pukaki Rise
  • Paxula subantarctica sorenseni Powell, 1955
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Campbell Island
  • Paxula transitans (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island
  • Zafra fuscolineata W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
  • Zafra kermadecensis W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
  • Zemitrella annectens Powell, 1937
    Height 3mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
  • Zemitrella attenuata Powell, 1940
    Height 4.5mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
  • Zemitrella benthicola Dell, 1956
    Height 4.5mm, Width 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago, Karitane Canyon
  • Zemitrella choava (Reeve, 1859)
    Height 6.5mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island. Also Kermadec Islands
  • Zemitrella circumcincta Dell, 1962
    Height 7.5mm, Width 3.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Cook Strait and South Island. Taiaroa Canyon, NE of Otago Peninsula, trawled in 550 metres
  • Zemitrella daemona (Webster, 1906)
    Height 6mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland to Bay of Plenty
  • Zemitrella fallax Powell, 1940
    Height 3mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mahia
  • Zemitrella finlayi Powell, 1933
    Height 4mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, In shell sand
    Chatham Islands
  • Zemitrella laevigata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to East Cape
  • Zemitrella laevigata curvirostris Powell, 1937
    Height 4mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
  • Zemitrella laevirostris Powell, 1940
    Height 3.3mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North and Ranfurly Bank
  • Zemitrella pseudomarginata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 6.5mm, Width 2.7mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Bay of Plenty
  • Zemitrella regis Powell, 1940
    Height 3.7mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands in 250 metres
  • Zemitrella rosea (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 6mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Cook Strait southwards and southern islands
  • Zemitrella sericea Powell, 1937
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
  • Zemitrella stephanophora (Suter, 1908)
    Height 7.5mm, Width 3.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mahia
  • Zemitrella sulcata (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 9mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island, from Cook Strait south to Snares and Auckland Island
  • Zemitrella sulcata constans Powell, 1955
    Height 9mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland Islands
  • Zemitrella turgida Powell, 1937
    Height 4.3mm, Width 2.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Upper NI and off Three Kings Islands
  • Zemitrella websteri (Suter, 1913)
    Height 3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland. Off Great Barrier Island
  • Zemitrella whangaroaensis Dell, 1956
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland. Wainui Bay, Whangaroa, in shell sand
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