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Species List for Family: Columbariidae
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  • Family: Columbariidae

  • Columbarium veridicum Dell, 1963
    Height 91.4mm, Width 24mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Trawled east of Poor Knights Islands 560-620 metres, off Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty 753-826 metres, off White Island 685-705 metres, off Cape Runaway 818-898 metres
    AE.
  • Coluzea altocanalis (Dell, 1956)
    Height 127mm
    Marine, Endemic, Sculpture consists of heavy smooth spiral keels, the strongest one peripheral. Contiguous sutural minor keels combine to create a deeply canaliculate suture
    Upper continental slope off the eastern coast of North and South Island, and Chatham Rise, 400-1000 metres
    CFME.
  • Coluzea mariae (Powell, 1952)
    Height 106mm, Width 25mm
    Marine, Endemic, Broader and more squat spire than spiralis. Body whorl more rounded, the peripheral keel less prominent, and the axial folds more numerous, forming 23-24 blunt tubercules per whorl
    From Cape Campbell southward along eastern coast of South Island, western Campbell Plateau (off Auckland and Campbell Islands), and along western Chatham Rise
    CFMAnE.
  • Coluzea spiralis (A. Adams, 1856)
    Height 134mm, Width 30mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Endemic
    North Cape to Cape Campbell, east coast South Island. Dredged 20-200 metres
    ACR.Fo.E.
  • Coluzea wormaldi Powell, 1971
    Height 134mm, Width 32mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Trawled off North Island east coast to Bay of Plenty, 290-700 metres
    ACE.
  • Fulgurofusus marshalli Harasewych, 2011
    Height 43mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Bounty Plateau, 280-457 metres
    AnE.
  • Fulgurofusus maxwelli Harasewych, 2011
    Height 86mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Northern Bounty Trough, the Bounty Plateau, and the eastern margins of the Campbell Plateau, 476-1386 metres
    CFMAnE.
  • Tropidofusus ypotethys Harasewych, 2019
    Marine
    Off Wairarapa Coast, NZ
    C
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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil