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  • Family: Columbellidae

  • Antimitrella laxa Powell, 1937
    Height 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Aoteatilia acicula (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Foveaux Strait and Snares Islands. Also recently recorded from the Chatham Islands
    FMAn
  • Aoteatilia amphipsila (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares Islands, 110 metres
    An
  • Aoteatilia larochei Powell, 1940
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mahia
    AC
  • Aoteatilia psila (Suter, 1908)
    Height 6mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands and Northland
    A
  • Aoteatilia substriata (Suter, 1899)
    Height 5.5mm, Width 2.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Otago, Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island
    F
  • 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
    An
  • Euplica varians (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
    Height 10mm
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • 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
    A
  • Graphicomassa ligula (Duclos, 1840)
    Height 15mm
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Liratilia compta Powell, 1930
    Height 5mm, Width 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland east coast to Mahia
    AC
  • Liratilia conquisita (Suter, 1907)
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands to Foveaux Strait, and Snares Islands
    ACFAn
  • Liratilia conquisita chathamensis Dell, 1956
    Height 3mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham Islands 230 metres
    M
  • Liratilia conquisita gracilis Powell, 1940
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Awanui Heads
    A
  • Liratilia elegantula Powell, 1937
    Height 4.6mm, Width 1.75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Liratilia isolata Dell, 1956
    Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham Islands 230 metres
    M
  • Liratilia sinuata Powell, 1937
    Height 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands and Northland
    A
  • Liratilia subnodosa Powell, 1934
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland
    A
  • Macrozafra cophinodes (Suter, 1908)
    Height 7mm, Width 3.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares and Antipodes Islands
    An
  • Macrozafra enwrighti Powell, 1940
    Height 3.6mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland
    A
  • Macrozafra mariae Powell, 1940
    Height 8.5mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland
    A
  • Macrozafra nodicincta (Suter, 1899)
    Height 7.5mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North and South Island, to Foveaux Strait
    ACF
  • Macrozafra subabnormis (Suter, 1899)
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Cook Strait, Fiordland and Chatham Islands in shallow water
    ACM
  • Macrozafra vivens (Powell, 1934)
    Height 12mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to East Cape
    A
  • Paxula allani Finlay, 1928
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands
    M
  • Paxula leptalea (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4.5mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Bounty and Campbell Islands
    An
  • Paxula paxillus (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 6mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South, Stewart, Chatham and Auckland Islands
    ACF
  • Paxula subantarctica (Suter, 1908)
    Height 6mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Bounty and Auckland Islands
    An
  • Paxula subantarctica sorenseni Powell, 1955
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Campbell Island
    An
  • Paxula transitans (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southland, Stewart, Snares and Bounty Islands
    FAn
  • Zafra fuscolineata W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Zafra kermadecensis W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Zemitrella annectens Powell, 1937
    Height 3mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Zemitrella attenuata Powell, 1940
    Height 4.5mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Zemitrella benthicola Dell, 1956
    Height 4.5mm, Width 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago, Karitane Canyon
    F
  • Zemitrella choava (Reeve, 1859)
    Height 6.5mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island. Also Kermadec Islands
    KACF
  • 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
    F
  • Zemitrella daemona (Webster, 1906)
    Height 6mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland to Bay of Plenty
    A
  • Zemitrella fallax Powell, 1940
    Height 3mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mahia
    AC
  • Zemitrella finlayi Powell, 1933
    Height 4mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, In shell sand
    Chatham Islands
    M
  • Zemitrella laevigata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to East Cape
    AC
  • Zemitrella laevigata curvirostris Powell, 1937
    Height 4mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Zemitrella laevirostris Powell, 1940
    Height 3.3mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North and Ranfurly Bank
    A
  • Zemitrella pseudomarginata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 6.5mm, Width 2.7mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Bay of Plenty
    ACR.Fo.
  • Zemitrella regis Powell, 1940
    Height 3.7mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands in 250 metres
    A
  • Zemitrella rosea (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 6mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Cook Strait southwards and southern islands
    CFAn
  • Zemitrella sericea Powell, 1937
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Zemitrella stephanophora (Suter, 1908)
    Height 7.5mm, Width 3.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mahia
    AC
  • Zemitrella sulcata (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 9mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island, from Cook Strait south to Snares and Auckland Island
    F
  • Zemitrella sulcata constans Powell, 1955
    Height 9mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland Islands
    An
  • Zemitrella turgida Powell, 1937
    Height 4.3mm, Width 2.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Upper NI and off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Zemitrella websteri (Suter, 1913)
    Height 3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland. Off Great Barrier Island
    A
  • Zemitrella whangaroaensis Dell, 1956
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland. Wainui Bay, Whangaroa, in shell sand
    A
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