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Species List for Subfamily: Marginellinae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Volutoidea (Superfamily) > Marginellidae (Family) > Marginellinae (Subfamily)
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  • Subfamily: Marginellinae

  • Dentimargo amoena (Suter, 1908)
    Height 5mm, Width 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares Islands
  • 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
  • Volvarina plicatula (Suter, 1909)
    Height 3mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland 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