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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Muricinae (Subfamily)
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  • Subfamily: Muricinae

  • 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
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