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Species List for Family: Architectonicidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass) > Architectonicoidea (Superfamily) > Architectonicidae (Family)
  • Family: Architectonicidae

  • Adelphotectonica nomotoi (Kosuge, 1979)
    Width 16mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Southern Africa and central and western Pacific. North-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 94-188m
  • Adelphotectonica reevei (Hanley, 1862)
    Width 28mm, Height 20mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific. Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-805m
  • Architectonica grandiosa Iredale, 1931
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Australia and northern New Zealand. Off Spirits Bay, Off Tom Bowling Bay, from 30-32m
  • Granosolarium asperum (Hinds, 1844)
    Width 8.5mm, Height 4mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indian Ocean and western and central Pacific. North-eastern North Island as far south as Bay of Islands, from 58-163m
  • Granosolarium gemmiferum Bieler, 1993
    Width 6mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Western Indian Ocean and Kermadec Islands, from 170-402m
  • Heliacus areola (Gmelin, 1791)
    Width 15mm
    Marine
    Continuous range from African east coast to central Pacific. Northland NZ
  • Heliacus asteleformis (Powell, 1965)
    Height 8mm, Width 7.5mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Japan, and between Three Kings Islands and Cape Maria van Diemen, and off Poor Knights Islands, from 49-91m
  • Heliacus costatus (Schepman, 1909)
    Width 9mm
    Marine
    Philippines to Australia and New Zealand. Northland
  • Heliacus hyperionis Bieler, 1993
    Width 7.4mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Australia and northern New Zealand. Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-186m
  • Heliacus implexus (Mighels, 1845)
    Width 11.8mm, Height 6.5mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-Pacific. Kermadec Islands, Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and northern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-805m
  • Philippia lutea (Lamarck, 1822)
    Width 13mm, Height 12mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Western Pacific. Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and southern North Island, and south-western South Island, from 0-95m
  • Pseudomalaxis meridionalis (Hedley, 1903)
    Width 16mm, Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Japan, southern Australia, West Norfolk Ridge, Wanganella and Middlesex Banks, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as White Island, from 63-442m
  • Pseudotorinia amoena (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
    Width 5.5mm, Height 2mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indian Ocean, Western Pacific and North-eastern North Island as far south as Plate Island, from 37-201m
  • Psilaxis oxytropis (A. Adams, 1855)
    Width 17mm, Height 12mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic, Larger protoconch than Psilaxis radiatus
    Indo-West Pacific. Kermadec Islands, Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-246m
  • Psilaxis radiatus (Röding, 1798)
    Width 16mm
    Marine
    Northland east coast. Also Indo-Pacific from South Africa and the Red Sea to Hawaii and Marquesas
  • Solatisonax injussa Iredale, 1931
    Width 26mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    South-eastern Australia and Kermadec Islands, from 530-567m
  • Solatisonax sp. aff. alleryi (Seguenza, 1876)
    Width 5.3mm
    Marine
    Western Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. Kermadec Islands. Sublittoral, 178-430 metres
  • Solatisonax supraradiata (Martens, 1904)
    Width 6.5mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Western Pacific. Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, North Cape and Ranfurly Bank, from 153-440m
  • Spirolaxis argonauta Bieler, 1993
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Western Pacific. Kermadec Islands, from 366-512m
  • Spirolaxis cornuarietis Bieler, 1993
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific. Kermadec Islands, from 100-146m
  • Spirolaxis rotulacatharinea (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
    Width 4.4mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific. Kermadec Islands, from 700-772m
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