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Species List for Family: Marginellidae
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  • Family: Marginellidae

  • Mesoginella aupouria (Powell, 1937)
    Height 4.3mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Mesoginella cracens (Dell, 1956)
    Height 4.5mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago, 475 - 650 metres
    F
  • Mesoginella ergastula (Dell, 1953)
    Height 4mm, Width 2.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Rise
    M
  • Mesoginella judithae (Dell, 1956)
    Height 5.5mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands
    M
  • Mesoginella koma B.A. Marshall, 2004
    Height 7mm, Width 4.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Mahia
    AC
  • Mesoginella larochei (Powell, 1932)
    Height 4mm, Width 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island. Far North to Wanganui and Mahia
    A
  • Mesoginella manawatawhia (Powell, 1937)
    Height 6mm, Width 3.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Mesoginella otagoensis (Dell, 1956)
    Height 5mm, Width 3.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago, 550 metres
    F
  • Mesoginella pisinna B.A. Marshall, 2004
    Height 5.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island east coast, Three Kings Islands to Mahia
    AC
  • Mesoginella pygmaeiformis (Powell, 1937)
    Height 4.8mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Mesoginella tryphenensis (Powell, 1932)
    Height 3.6mm, Width 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland east coast to East Cape
    A
  • Mesoginella vailei (Powell, 1932)
    Height 8mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North, Northland
    A
  • Ovaginella maoria (Powell, 1937)
    Height 7mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands 475 metres
    A
  • Ovaginella profunda (Suter, 1909)
    Height 7.0mm, Width 4.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago, 180 metres
    F
  • Serrata fasciata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1846)
    Height 9.4mm, Width 4.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, Far North, and north-eastern North Island to Mahia Peninsula, under stones intertidally to about 22 metres
    AC
  • Serrata maoriana (Powell, 1932)
    Height 10mm, Width 4.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast to East Cape
    A
  • Serrata raoulica B.A. Marshall, 2004
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • Dentimargo amoena (Suter, 1908)
    Height 5mm, Width 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Ahipara, Northland. Off Snares Islands
    AAn
  • Dentimargo cairoma (Brookes, 1924)
    Height 4.5mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, White, often with narrow red bands at periphery
    Northland to Cook Strait, Kaikoura, and Chatham Islands
    ACM
  • Dentimargo fusulus (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 7mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Bay of Plenty. Off Poor Knights Islands
    A
  • Dentimargo fusuloides (Dell, 1956)
    Height 6.3mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago, 350-550 metres
    F
  • Dentimargo hebescens (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 3.8mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off northland east coast
    A
  • Dentimargo luridus (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Fiordland to Foveaux Strait and Otago. Off Chathams, Snares, Antipodes and Auckland Islands
    FMAn
  • Dentimargo stewartianus (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4.5mm, Width 2.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island. Snares, Campbell and Auckland Islands
    FAn
  • Dentimargo subamoenus (Powell, 1937)
    Height 4mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Dentimargo subfusulus (Powell, 1932)
    Height 7mm, Width 3.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast, south to Chatham Islands and southern NZ
    ACFM
  • Dentimargo wormaldi (Powell, 1971)
    Height 9.3mm, Width 4.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast
    A
  • Volvarina albescens (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 5mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island, Foveaux Strait, Snares and Bounty Islands
    FAn
  • Volvarina parvistriata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Otago to Foveaux Strait, Snares, Auckland and Chatham Islands
    FMAn
  • Volvarina plicatula (Suter, 1909)
    Height 3mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland Islands
    An
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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil