Species List for Family: Marginellidae
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- Mesoginella aupouria (Powell, 1937)
Height 4.3mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands - Mesoginella cracens (Dell, 1956)
Height 4.5mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off eastern Otago, 475 - 650 metres
- Mesoginella koma B.A. Marshall, 2004
Height 7mm, Width 4.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northland to Mahia
- Mesoginella larochei (Powell, 1932)
Height 4mm, Width 2.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island. Far North to Wanganui and Mahia
- Mesoginella manawatawhia (Powell, 1937)
Height 6mm, Width 3.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands - Mesoginella otagoensis (Dell, 1956)
Height 5mm, Width 3.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off eastern Otago, 550 metres
- Mesoginella pisinna B.A. Marshall, 2004
Height 5.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island east coast, Three Kings Islands to Mahia
- Mesoginella pygmaeiformis (Powell, 1937)
Height 4.8mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands - Mesoginella tryphenensis (Powell, 1932)
Height 3.6mm, Width 2.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northland east coast to East Cape
- Ovaginella maoria (Powell, 1937)
Height 7mm, Width 5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands 475 metres - Ovaginella profunda (Suter, 1909)
Height 7.0mm, Width 4.9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off eastern Otago, 180 metres
- 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
- Serrata maoriana (Powell, 1932)
Height 10mm, Width 4.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Northland east coast to East Cape
- Dentimargo cairoma (Brookes, 1924)
Height 4.5mm, Width 2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, White, often with narrow red bands at periphery
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, North Island, northern South Island and Chatham Islands
- Dentimargo fusuloides (Dell, 1956)
Height 6.3mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Eastern South Island, Chatham Rise and Antipodes Islands
- Dentimargo fusulus (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Height 7mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex and King Banks, off Cape Reinga, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank
- Dentimargo hebescens (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Height 3.8mm, Width 2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island and western Chatham Rise
- Dentimargo luridus (Suter, 1908)
Height 3mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern South Island as far north as Otago Peninsula, Foveaux Strait, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, and Pukaki Rise - Dentimargo stewartianus (Suter, 1908)
Height 4.5mm, Width 2.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-western South Island, Foveaux Strait, Stewart, Snares, Auckland and Campbell Island
- Dentimargo subamoenus (Powell, 1937)
Height 4mm, Width 2.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and northern North Island as far south as Bay of Islands - Dentimargo subfusulus (Powell, 1932)
Height 7mm, Width 3.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island between Bay of Islands and Cuvier Island
- Dentimargo wormaldi (Powell, 1971)
Height 9.3mm, Width 4.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island
- Volvarina albescens (Hutton, 1873)
Height 5mm, Width 2.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Stewart Island, Foveaux Strait, Snares and Bounty Islands
- Volvarina parvistriata (Suter, 1908)
Height 3mm, Width 1.7mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Otago to Foveaux Strait, Snares, Auckland and Chatham Islands
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
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