Babelomurex lischkeanus (Dunker, 1882) Height 62mm, Width 41mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic, On scleractinian corals Namibia and Indo-West Pacific, Japan, South China Sea, Philippines and Queensland to Victoria, Australia. Kermadec Islands, north-eastern North Island, and off New Plymouth, from 46-402m |
Babelomurex nakamigawai (Kuroda, 1959) Height 35mm, Width 24mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic South-eastern Africa, southern Japan and New Zealand. Off North Cape, from 470-630m |
Babelomurex wormaldi (Powell, 1971) Height 22mm, Width 18mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Philippine Islands and South-West Pacific. Raoul Island and north-eastern North Island as far south as vicinity of White Island, from 162-407m |
Coralliophila bulbiformis (Conrad, 1837) Height 26mm, Width 19mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Tropical and subtropical Indo-West Pacific. Kermadec Islands and north-eastern North Island, as far south as Poor Knights Islands, from 0-70m |
Coralliophila monodonta (Blainville, 1832) Height 30mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Indo-Pacific Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 0-27m |
Coralliophila radula (A. Adams, 1855) Height 28mm, Width 21mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Indo-West Pacific. Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 3-29m |
Coralliophila sertata (Hedley, 1903) Height 22mm, Width 12mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Southern Australia and northern New Zealand. Kermadec Islands, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 55-805m |
Coralliophila solutistoma Kuroda & Shikama in Shikama, 1966 Height 27mm, Width 16mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Western Pacific, Norfolk Island and North of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, from 142-490m |
Coralliophila sp. aff. sertata (Hedley, 1903) Height 14mm, Width 8mm Marine, Native - Endemic, Living at low tide level Raoul Island, Spirits Bay and Poor Knight Islands, from 0-45m |
Coralliophila squamosissima (E.A. Smith, 1876) Height 30mm, Width 21mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic South Africa, Indo-West Pacific, Australia, Kermadec Islands and north-eastern North Island, as far south as Te Kaha, from 0-23m |
Emozamia licina (Hedley & Petterd, 1906) Height 20mm, Width 14mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Eastern Pacific. New South Wales to Tasmania, Australia, Japan, Philippines and New Zealand. North-eastern North Island, as far south-east as East Cape, from 67-515m |
Hirtomurex marshalli Oliverio, 2008 Height 26mm, Width 15mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Southern New Caledonia and northern New Zealand. Kermadec Ridge and northern North Island, from 300-850m |
Hirtomurex nakamurai Kosuge, 1985 Height 38mm, Width 23mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Southern Japan, New South Wales, and southern Norfolk Ridge, from 514-540m |
Hirtomurex tangaroa Marshall & Oliverio, 2009 Height 26mm, Width 16mm Marine, Native - Endemic Southern Kermadec Ridge and north-eastern North Island, from 698-1140m |
Hirtomurex taranui Marshall & Oliverio, 2009 Height 32mm, Width 17mm Marine, Native - Endemic Eastern North Island, from 750-1100m |
Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908 Width 7.7mm, Height 5.2mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Western Pacific, Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 420m |
Leptoconchus sp. Height 22.3mm, Width 19.4mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Indo-Pacific. Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, from 27-29m |
Magilus sp. cf. antiquus Montfort, 1810 Width 21mm, Height 18.5mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, from 0m |
Mipus matsumotoi Kosuge, 1985 Height 26.5mm, Width 11.5mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Southern Japan, South Africa and tropical W Pacific. Norfolk Ridge and Kermadec Islands, from 530-567m |
Rhizochilus sp. cf. antipathum Steenstrup, 1850 Height 12.7mm, Width 7.9mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Indo-Pacific. Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 70m |
Maculotriton serriale (Deshayes, 1833) Marine, Native - Non-endemic Indo-West Pacific, Arabian Gulf and Red Sea. Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 0m |
Oppomorus noduliferus (Menke, 1829) Height 24mm, Width 15mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Eastern Australia, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and northern New Zealand. Kermadec Islands and north-eastern North Island as far south as Mokohinau Islands, from 0-20m |
Pascula palmeri (Powell, 1967) Height 26mm, Width 14mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Norfolk Island and northern New Zealand. West Norfolk Ridge, Raoul Island, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-195m |
Uttleya ahiparana (Powell, 1927) Height 20mm, Width 8mm Marine, Native - Endemic North-eastern and south-western North Island, and far northern and far southern South Island, from 0-530m |
Uttleya williamsi Powell, 1952 Height 11mm, Width 3.5mm Marine, Native - Endemic North Island, Bay of Plenty |
Haustrum albomarginatum (Deshayes, 1839) Marine, Native - Endemic, Living intertidally North-eastern and western North Island, and South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, from 0-7m |
Haustrum haustorium (Gmelin, 1791) Height 81mm, Width 56mm Brown Rock Shell, Dark Rock Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic, Living intertidally North Island, South Island as far south as Caswell Sound, and Chatham Islands, from 0m |
Haustrum lacunosum (Bruguière, 1789) Height 40mm, Width 25mm Marine, Native - Endemic, Living intertidally South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Bounty and Chatham Islands, from 0-39m |
Haustrum scobina (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Height 34mm, Width 20mm Oyster Borer, Marine, Native - Endemic, Living intertidally North Island, far northern South Island and Chatham Islands, from 0m |
Phyllocoma speciosa virginalis (Suter, 1913) Height 16mm, Width 7mm Marine, Native - Endemic, Dredged or found in shell-sand Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Bland Bay, from 6-508m |
Timbellus bilobatus Houart, 2012 Marine, Native - Non-endemic Coral Sea, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and northern New Zealand. Kermadec Islands and Ranfurly Bank, from 106-490m |
Timbellus flemingi (Beu, 1967) Height 35mm Marine, Native - Endemic Northern North Island as far south as White Island, from 134-673m |
Timbellus richeri (Houart, 1987) Height 28mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Coral Sea and northern New Zealand. Kermadec Islands, and north-eastern North Island, from 228-490m |
Murexsul espinosus (Hutton, 1885) Height 35mm, Width 17mm Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene, eastern North Island between Hastings and Cape Palliser. Recent from Ranfurly Bank, off East Cape to off Mahia Peninsula, from 20-143m |
Murexsul mariae Finlay, 1930 Height 30mm, Width 14mm Marine, Native - Endemic King Bank, Three Kings Islands, Northern North Island as far south as Ahipara on west coast and Gisborne on east coast, from 0-233m |
Murexsul octogonus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Height 89mm, Width 48mm Octagonal Murex, Marine, Native - Endemic Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Maria van Diemen, and north-eastern and south-western North Island, from 0-508m |
Murexsul profundus (B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch, 2000) Height 10.5mm Marine, Native - Endemic Middlesex Bank and Three Kings Islands, from 91-805m |
Murexsul puniceus (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915) Marine, Native - Endemic Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 10-30m |
Rolandiella scotti (B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch, 2000) Height 60mm, Width 32mm Marine, Native - Endemic Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as White Island, from 9-550m |
Axymene aucklandicus (E.A. Smith, 1902) Height 13mm, Width 6.5mm Marine, Native - Endemic Eastern and south-western South Island, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, from 0-549m |
Comptella costata B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Marine, Native - Endemic Middlesex Bank and Three Kings Islands, from 15-206m |
Comptella cresswelli B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 5.05mm, Width 2.45mm Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic, Late Pleistocene (Haweran) and Holocene Southern South Island, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, from 0-220m |
Comptella curta (R. Murdoch, 1905) Height 7mm, Width 3mm Marine, Native - Endemic Cook Strait, eastern and south-western South Island, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, Pukaki Rise and eastern Chatham Rise, from 0-555m |
Comptella kaikoura B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 7.7mm Marine, Native - Endemic North-eastern South Island, from 400m |
Comptella munida B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Marine, Native - Endemic South-eastern South Island, from 150-343m |
Comptella paulini B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 5.60mm Marine, Native - Endemic South-western South Island, from 13-415m |
Comptella pygmaea B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 4.10mm Marine, Native - Endemic South-western South Island, from 13-415m |
Enixotrophon carduelis (R.B. Watson, 1882) Height 40mm, Width 25mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic New South Wales, Middleton Reefs, Lord Howe Rise and northern New Zealand. West Norfolk Ridge, southern Norfolk Ridge, Kermadec Ridge, Three Kings Rise, and north-eastern North Island as far south as White Island, from 549-1211m |
Enixotrophon eos (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011) Height 45mm, Width 23mm Marine, Native - Endemic South-eastern North Island, south-eastern South Island and Chatham Rise, from 1100-2130m |
Enixotrophon eumorphus B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011 Height 24.6mm Marine Macquarie Ridge, 460-470 metres |
Enixotrophon hastulus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011) Height 53.4mm Marine, Native - Endemic Chatham Rise, from 985-1010m |
Enixotrophon latus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011) Height 55mm, Width 32mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Eastern Australia, Lord Howe Rise and New Zealand. West Norfolk Ridge, Kermadec Islands, North Island, western South Island, Chatham Rise and Challenger Plateau, from 457-1292m |
Enixotrophon macquariensis (Powell, 1957) Height 22mm, Width 10.5mm Marine, Native - Endemic Macquarie Ridge, 69-810 metres |
Enixotrophon maxwelli (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011) Height 53mm, Width 22mm Marine, Native - Endemic West Norfolk Ridge, North Island, eastern South Island and Chatham Rise, from 867-2619m |
Enixotrophon obtusus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011) Height 29mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. West Norfolk Ridge, southern Norfolk Ridge, Reinga Ridge, Three Kings Rise, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula, from 707-1251m |
Enixotrophon occiduus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011) Height 26mm, Width 11mm Marine, Native - Endemic West Norfolk Ridge, from 950-1008m |
Enixotrophon pumilus B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 9.9mm Marine, Native - Endemic Wanganella Bank, West Norfolk Ridge, from 785-800m |
Enixotrophon pygmaeus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011) Height 13mm Marine, Native - Endemic Southern Lord Howe Rise and Challenger Plateau, from 1029-1186m |
Enixotrophon tangaroa (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011) Height 37mm Marine, Native - Endemic South-eastern North Island as far north as Mahia Peninsula, north-eastern South Island and Chatham Rise, from 1000-2126m |
Enixotrophon venustus (B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2011) Height 55mm, Width 21mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Tasmania, Middleton Reefs and New Zealand. West Norfolk Ridge, Reinga Ridge, eastern North Island and Chatham Rise, from 800-1251m |
Enixotrophon veronicae (Pastorino, 1999) Height 52mm, Width 22mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Southern Chile, Strait of Magellan, South Georgia, Tasmania and Bollons Plateau, southern New Zealand, from 990-1261m |
Lamellitrophon carinatus B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 5.9mm Marine, Native - Endemic King Bank, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga and off White Island, from 15-805m |
Lamellitrophon huttonii (Murdoch, 1900) Height 16mm, Width 7mm Marine, Native - Endemic North, South, Stewart and Auckland Islands, from 0-549m |
Lamellitrophon tangaroa B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 6.4mm Marine, Native - Endemic Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island, from Spirits Bay to as far south as Ranfurly Bank, from 18-805m |
Lamellitrophon teres (Finlay, 1930) Height 6mm, Width 3.3mm Marine, Native - Endemic South Island, off Taiaroa Head, Otago, 90 metres |
Lamellitrophon traversi (Hutton, 1873) Height 22mm, Width 10mm Marine, Native - Endemic Three Kings, North, South and Chatham Islands, from 0-233m |
Lenitrophon convexus (Suter, 1909) Height 12.4mm, Width 4.5mm Marine, Native - Endemic South-eastern South Island as far north as Oamaru, Stewart Island and eastern Chatham Rise, from 17-457m |
Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882) Height 19mm, Width 11mm Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal Western North Island, from 0m |
Paratrophon cheesemani exsculptus Powell, 1933 Height 23mm, Width 13mm Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal Western North Island, from 0m |
Paratrophon patens (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854) Height 29mm, Width 17mm Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal on exposed rocky shores Western North Island and South Island, from 0m |
Paratrophon quoyi (Reeve, 1846) Height 35mm, Width 18mm Marine, Native - Endemic, From low tide, often around Corallina seaweed North Island as far south as Ahipara on west coast and Castlepoint on east coast, from 0m |
Poirieria kopua Dell, 1956 Height 21mm, Width 15mm Marine, Native - Endemic Chatham Rise and eastern South Island, from 530-660m |
Poirieria syrinx B.A. Marshall & Houart, 1995 Height 26mm, Width 24mm Marine, Native - Endemic South-eastern North Island as far north as Mayor Island and Cook Strait, from 466-786m |
Poirieria zelandica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Width 88mm, Height 79mm Spiny Murex, Marine, Native - Endemic Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, and Challenger Plateau, from 0-540m |
Terefundus coronatus (Dell, 1956) Height 5.5mm, Width 2.2mm Marine, Native - Endemic Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank, from 112-238m |
Terefundus crispulatus (Suter, 1908) Height 4mm, Width 1.9mm Marine, Native - Endemic Southern South Island as far north as Oamaru, and eastern Chatham Rise, from 64-555m |
Terefundus cuvierensis (Mestayer, 1919) Height 4.5mm, Width 2mm Marine, Native - Endemic Northern and south-western North Island, from 22-257m |
Terefundus goniocorella B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 8.8mm Marine, Native - Endemic North-eastern South Island (off Kaikoura), from 400m |
Terefundus grebneffi B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 7.6mm Marine, Native - Endemic Eastern South Island, from 421-530m |
Terefundus gregarius B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 9.5mm Marine, Native - Endemic Eastern South Island, from 128-555m |
Terefundus mernoo B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 4.5mm Marine, Native - Endemic Mernoo Bank, western Chatham Rise, from 320-419m |
Terefundus nitens B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 5.5mm Marine, Native - Endemic Bay of Plenty, from 348-527m |
Terefundus quadricinctus (Suter, 1908) Height 4.4mm, Width 2.1mm Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic Southern South Island, Snares and Auckland Islands, from 113-440m |
Terefundus sepulcralis B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 6.85mm Marine, Native - Endemic Graveyard Seamount complex, Chatham Rise, from 757-1058m |
Terefundus unicarinatus Dell, 1956 Height 4.3mm, Width 2.3mm Marine, Native - Endemic Southern South Island as far north as Oamaru and eastern Chatham Rise, from 37-549m |
Terefundus venustus B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Marine, Native - Endemic South-eastern South Island, from 340-620m |
Xymene plebeius (Hutton, 1873) Height 22mm, Width 11mm Marine, Native - Endemic, In harbours and estuaries North Island, far northern and eastern South Island and Stewart Island, from 0-446m |
Xymene pumilus (Suter, 1909) Height 30mm, Width 15mm Marine, Native - Endemic South-western North Island, south-eastern South Island, Stewart, Auckland and Bounty Islands, and Pukaki Rise, from 0-660m |
Xymene warreni Ponder, 1972 Height 20mm, Width 11mm Marine, Native - Endemic South-western North Island and far northern South Island, from 26-91m |
Xymenella pusilla (Suter, 1907) Height 10mm, Width 5mm Marine, Native - Endemic North, South and Stewart Islands, from 0-143m |
Zeatrophon ambiguus (Philippi, 1844) Height 64mm, Width 38mm Marine, Native - Endemic North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, from 0-274m |
Zeatrophon mortenseni (Odhner, 1924) Height 23mm, Width 10mm Marine, Native - Endemic Northern and South-western North Island, and South, Stewart, Auckland and Chatham Islands, from 9-256m |
Zeatrophon pulcherrimus Finlay, 1930 Height 18mm, Width 7mm Marine, Native - Endemic Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, Challenger Plateau and Pukaki Rise, from 36-570m |
Agnewia tritoniformis (Blainville, 1832) Height 29mm, Width 16mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Eastern and southern Australia, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, and nortrhern New Zealand. Three Kings Islands, Cape Maria van Diemen, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula |
Dicathais orbita (Gmelin, 1791) Height 120mm, Width 75mm White Rock Shell, Cart Rut Shell, Marine, Native - Non-endemic Australia, Lord Howe, Norfolk and Kermadec Islands, and New Zealand. Kermadec, Three Kings, and North islands, South Island as far south as Haast, and Chatham Islands, from 0-45m |
Neothais smithi (Brazier, 1889) Height 34mm, Width 22mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and northern New Zealand. Kermadec Islands, Three Kings Islands, Cape Reinga, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Mayor Island, from 0-53m |
Rapana venosa (Valenciennes, 1846) Height 118mm, Width 85mm Marine, Not found living in NZ waters In cray pots off Cape Maria van Diemen |
Ponderia tangaroa B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 15.4mm Marine, Native - Endemic Wanganella Bank, West Norfolk Ridge, from 113-287m |
Ponderia zealandica Hutton, 1873 Height 30mm, Width 21mm Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic Eastern (Bay of Plenty and Ranfurly Bank) and south-western North Island, and far northern South Island (off Cape Farewell). Castlecliff, Wanganui fossil, from 55-164m |
Prototyphis eos (Hutton, 1873) Height 30mm, Width 16mm Dawn Murex, Marine, Native - Endemic Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, Cape Maria van Diemen, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula, from 0-710m |
Prototyphis eos paupereques (Powell, 1974) Height 30mm, Width 19mm Marine, Native - Endemic Off northland east coast |
Leptotrophon occiduus B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Height 11.0mm Marine, Native - Endemic West Norfolk Ridge, from 785-800m |
Leptotrophon wanganella B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2022 Marine, Native - Endemic Wanganella Bank, West Norfolk Ridge, from 126-133m |
Litozamia subtropicalis (Iredale, 1912) Height 3mm Marine, Native - Endemic Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 0-146m |
Trophon mawsoni Powell, 1957 Height 46mm, Width 28mm Marine, Native - Endemic Off Macquarie Island, 29-549 metres, from 22-124m |
Monstrotyphis montfortii (A. Adams, 1863) Height 9.1mm Marine, Native - Non-endemic Japan, Philippine Islands and south-eastern Africa, West Norfolk Ridge, Middlesex Bank and Three Kings Islands, from 113-805m |
Monstrotyphis pauperis (Mestayer, 1916) Height 10mm, Width 6mm Marine, Native - Endemic North-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 55-207m |
Monstrotyphis tangaroa B.A. Marshall & Houart, 2012 Height 7.9mm Marine, Native - Endemic Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, off Spirits Bay and Great Exhibition Bay, from 36-622m |
Siphonochelus solus Vella, 1961 Height 8mm, Width 4mm Marine, Native - Endemic Northern North Island and Challenger Plateau, from 178-1029m |
Ingensiella anomala (Dell, 1956) Height 7.1mm Marine, Native - Endemic South-eastern South Island and eastern Chatham Rise, from 198-555m |