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Species List for Family: Volutomitridae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Turbinelloidea (Superfamily) > Volutomitridae (Family)

  • Family: Volutomitridae

  • Microvoluta marginata (Hutton, 1885)
    Height 8mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, North Island, southern South Island, Stewart Island and Mernoo Bank, from 15-502m
  • Microvoluta royana Iredale, 1924
    Height 12mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    New South Wales and Kermadec Islands, from 177-1029m
  • Peculator coma (Odhner, 1924)
    Height 10mm, Width 5.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and off Cape Reinga, from 78-805m
  • Peculator hedleyi (R. Murdoch, 1905)
    Height 8mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern North Island as far south as White Island, from 0-104m
  • Peculator obconicus (Powell, 1952)
    Height 7mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands and off Spirits Bay, Far North, from 54-69m
  • Volutomitra banksi (Dell, 1951)
    Height 44mm, Width 18mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Sometimes bears a minute operculum
    Off Cape Palliser, Campbell Plateau, Pukaki Rise, Bounty Plateau and Chatham Rise, from 172-1404m
  • Volutomitra obscura (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 28mm, Width 14mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and northern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula
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