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
A - Mesoginella cracens (Dell, 1956)
Height 4.5mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off eastern Otago, 475 - 650 metres
F
- 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
- 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
ACM
- Dentimargo fusuloides (Dell, 1956)
Height 6.3mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Eastern South Island, Chatham Rise and Antipodes Islands
FAn
- 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
A
- Dentimargo hebescens (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Height 3.8mm, Width 2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island and western Chatham Rise
AC
- 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
FMAn - 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
FAn
- 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
A - Dentimargo subfusulus (Powell, 1932)
Height 7mm, Width 3.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island between Bay of Islands and Cuvier Island
A
- Dentimargo wormaldi (Powell, 1971)
Height 9.3mm, Width 4.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island
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
Key to 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
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