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Species List for Family: Pseudomelatomidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Conoidea (Superfamily) > Pseudomelatomidae (Family)
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  • Family: Pseudomelatomidae

  • Anticomitas vivens Powell, 1942
    Height 9.5mm, Width 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands
  • Antimelatoma buchanani (E.A. Smith, 1877)
    Height 20mm, Width 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to East Cape
  • Comitas onokeana vivens Dell, 1956
    Height 48mm, Width 16mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off North Island east coast down to eastern Otago and Chatham Rise
  • Comitas trailli (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 28mm, Width 10mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Off Oamaru to Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island
  • Leucosyrinx canyonensis (Dell, 1956)
    Height 9mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Off Cook Strait to eastern Otago 430-650 metres
  • Leucosyrinx eremita (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Poor Knights Islands to Bay of Plenty
  • Leucosyrinx pikei (Dell, 1963)
    Height 35mm, Width 11mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast. Off Poor Knights Islands around 475 metres
  • Paracomitas augusta (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Height 10mm, Width 3.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island to Cook Strait
  • Paracomitas haumuria Beu, 1979
    Height 15mm, Width 6.1mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Central & South, described from fossil
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