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

  • Antimitrella laxa Powell, 1937
    Height 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands and Spirits Bay, from 23-260m
  • Aoteatilia acicula (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, from 55-91m
  • Aoteatilia amphipsila (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Snares Islands, from 37-91m
  • Aoteatilia larochei Powell, 1940
    Height 3.5mm
    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, from 20-128m
  • Aoteatilia psila (Suter, 1908)
    Height 6mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Cape Reinga, Spirits Bay and Tom Bowling Bay, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Mayor Island, from 30-100m
  • Aoteatilia substriata (Suter, 1899)
    Height 5.5mm, Width 2.25mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island as far north as Otago Peninsula, Stewart Island and Snares Islands, from 18-620m
  • Aoteatilia tenuistriata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 6mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Only known from the holotye, which has a broken protoconch
    Snares Islands, from 91m
  • Euplica varians (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
    Height 10mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic, Low tide level
    Kermadec Islands, from 0m
  • Exomilopsis hipkinsi Powell, 1964
    Height 8.5mm, Width 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 15-622m
  • Graphicomassa ligula (Duclos, 1840)
    Height 15mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific. Kermadec Islands, from 15m
  • Liratilia angulata (Suter, 1908)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island as far north as Open Bay Islands, and Foveaux Strait, from 9-53m
  • Liratilia chathamensis Dell, 1956
    Height 3mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western North Island, of Otago Peninsula, Auckland Islands and Chatham Islands, from 70-220m
  • Liratilia compta Powell, 1930
    Height 5mm, Width 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and northern North Island, as far south as Mahia Peninsula, from 0-805m
  • Liratilia conquisita (Suter, 1907)
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 15-805m
  • Liratilia gracilis Powell, 1940
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island, from 22m
  • Liratilia isolata Dell, 1956
    Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands, from 238m
  • Liratilia sinuata Powell, 1937
    Height 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King banks, Three Kings Islands, and northern North Island as far south as Ahipara on west coast and Ranfurly Bank on east coast, from 15-805m
  • Liratilia subnodosa Powell, 1934
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and northern North Island as far south as Ahipara on west coast and Ranfurly Bank on east coast, from 0-103m
  • 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, from 16-224m
  • 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, from 0-805m
  • Macrozafra mariae Powell, 1940
    Height 8.5mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands and off Cape Maria van Diemen, from 0-622m
  • 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), from 0-183m
  • 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, from 0-233m
  • Macrozafra vivens (Powell, 1934)
    Height 12mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island, from Whangarei to Lottin Point and Tolaga Bay, from 7-18m
  • Paxula allani Finlay, 1928
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands, from 0m
  • Paxula leptalea (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4.5mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Bounty and Campbell Islands, from 91m
  • Paxula paxillus (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 6mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern North Island (Wellington), South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, from 0-420m
  • 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, from 0-360m
  • Paxula subantarctica sorenseni Powell, 1955
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Campbell Island, from 0m
  • Paxula transitans (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island, from 20-30m
  • Zafra fuscolineata W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands, from 10-45m
  • Zafra kermadecensis W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands, from 10-219m
  • Zemitrella annectens Powell, 1937
    Height 3mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks and Three Kings Islands, from 55-310m
  • Zemitrella attenuata Powell, 1940
    Height 4.5mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands
  • Zemitrella benthicola Dell, 1956
    Height 4.5mm, Width 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island as far south as Otago Peninsula, from 340-939m
  • Zemitrella choava (Reeve, 1859)
    Height 6.5mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern and southern North Island, and northern South Island (Nelson and Lyttelton), from 0-128m
  • Zemitrella circumcincta Dell, 1962
    Height 7.5mm, Width 3.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island, from 293-738m
  • Zemitrella daemona (Webster, 1906)
    Height 6mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island, from off Great Barrier Island to Motuhora Island, from 146-293m
  • Zemitrella elegantula (Powell, 1937)
    Height 4.6mm, Width 1.75mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and off Spirits Bay, from 40-206m
  • 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
    North, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, from 0-415m
  • Zemitrella laevigata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, off Cape Reinga and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 31-123m
  • Zemitrella laevigata curvirostris Powell, 1937
    Height 4mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, from 20-260m
  • Zemitrella laevirostris Powell, 1940
    Height 3.3mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Cape Maria van Diemen to Tom Bowling Bay, and Ranfurly Bank, from 0-39m
  • Zemitrella regis Powell, 1940
    Height 3.7mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, from 188-256m
  • Zemitrella rosea (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 6mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart, Auckland, Campbell, Bounty and Antipodes Islands, from 0-201m
  • Zemitrella sericea Powell, 1937
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and off Cape Reinga, from 53-805m
  • Zemitrella stephanophora (Suter, 1908)
    Height 7.5mm, Width 3.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island, from 0m
  • Zemitrella sulcata (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 9mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Cook Strait, eastern and south-western South Island, Foveaux Strait, and Stewart, Snares and Auckland Islands, from 0-450m
  • 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
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, northern North Island as far south as Cape Kidnappers, and Chatham Islands, from 0-805m
  • Zemitrella websteri (Suter, 1913)
    Height 3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern North Island as far south as Raglan, from 37-293m
  • Zemitrella whangaroaensis Dell, 1956
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, off Spirits Bay, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Whangaroa, from 0-123m
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