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  • Family: Volutomitridae

  • Microvoluta marginata (Hutton, 1885)
    Height 8mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart and Snares Islands. Trawled around 35-500 metres
  • Microvoluta royana Iredale, 1924
    Height 12mm
    Marine
    Australia; Fraser Island, Queensland, to Lakes Entrance, Victoria, 14-143 metres. Kermadec Islands
  • Peculator hedleyi (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 8mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland east coast, to Bay of Plenty
  • Peculator obconicus (Powell, 1952)
    Height 7mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands and off Spirits Bay, Far North
  • Peculator porphyria (Verco, 1896)
    Height 10mm, Width 5.7mm
    Marine
    Far North. Off Three Kings Islands to North Cape
  • Volutomitra banksi (Dell, 1951)
    Height 44mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Sometimes bears a minute operculum
    South Island. Off Banks Peninsula and Chatham Rise
  • Volutomitra obscura (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 28mm, Width 14mm
    Marine
    Northland to East Cape. Also South Australia to Victoria and Tasmania
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