Species List for Family: Pyramidellidae
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- Agatha georgiana (Hutton, 1885)
Height 15mm, Width 6mm
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
North-eastern and south-western North Island, and South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland and Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank, from 0-550m
- Besla rossiana Laws, 1941
Height 2.2mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Auckland Islands, from 174m
- Besla subrugata (Powell, 1927)
Height 1.8mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Eastern North Island, Cook Strait, and South, Stewart, Auckland, Campbell and Antipodes Islands, from 0-549m - Besla vaga Laws, 1941
Height 1.9mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
North-eastern and south-western North Island and far northern South Island
- Besla waitangiensis Laws, 1941
Height 1.5mm, Width 0.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Chatham Islands, from 0-18m - Evalea liricincta (Suter, 1908)
Height 3mm, Width 1.4mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Stewart Island, from 33m - Evalea obsoleta (Murdoch, 1900)
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
North, South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands, from 0-710m - Evalea propria Laws, 1941
Height 3mm, Width 1.9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island, from 0m - Evalea sabulosa (Suter, 1908)
Height 4mm, Width 1.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Bounty Islands, from 91m - Evalea taumakiensis Suter, 1908
Height 3mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Western South Island, from 18m - Finlayola lurida (Suter, 1908)
Height 5.8mm, Width 1.4mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and northern North Island, as far south as Raglan, from 0-805m - Gumina dolichostoma (Suter, 1908)
Height 6.5mm, Width 3.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
Three Kings, North, South and Stewart Islands, from 0-415m
- Gumina minor Laws, 1940
Height 2.5mm, Width 1.1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Northland east coast, 22 metres - Ividella maoria Powell, 1940
Height 3.3mm, Width 1.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far north-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 14-805m
- Linopyrga rugata (Hutton, 1886)
Height 2.9mm, Width 1.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
King Bank, and Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands, from 0-446m
- Linopyrga rugata parva Laws, 1941
Height 2.3mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
Northland to Auckland - Longchaeus maculosus (Lamarck, 1822)
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 10-20m - Miralda austropacifica W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
Marine, Native - Endemic
Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 10-219m - Obexomia denselirata (Suter, 1908)
Height 2.1mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island and Chatham Islands, from 10-89m - Odostomia acutangula Suter, 1908
Height 2.4mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island, Stewart Island and Chatham Islands, from 44-346m - Odostomia aucklandica Laws, 1939
Height 4.1mm, Width 1.95mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Auckland Islands, from 0m
- Odostomia chordata Suter, 1908
Height 3.6mm, Width 1.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 70m - Odostomia corpulentoides Dell, 1956
Height 4.2mm, Width 1.7mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-western South Island and Chatham Islands, from 229-604m
- Odostomia cryptodon Suter, 1908
Height 2.7mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South Island. Lyttelton to Taieri Beach and Chatham Islands - Odostomia geoffreyi Laws, 1939
Height 1.85mm, Width 0.85mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0m - Odostomia haurakiensis Laws, 1939
Height 4mm, Width 1.7mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northern North Island, Cook Strait and south-eastern South Island, from 0-132m
- Odostomia hyphala R.B. Watson, 1886
Height 6.3mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Eastern North Island, from 1280m - Odostomia incidata Suter, 1908
Height 4.3mm, Width 1.6mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North, South and Chatham Islands, from 0-415m
- Odostomia manukauensis Laws, 1939
Height 2.3mm, Width 1.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Eastern North Island and Cook Strait, from 0-117m
- Odostomia murdochi Suter, 1913
Height 4mm, Width 1.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern North Island (Wellington), South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell and Antipodes Islands, from 0-319m
- Odostomia parvacutangula Laws, 1939
Height 2mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island and Auckland Islands, from 176-549m
- Odostomia pedica Laws, 1939
Height 3.8mm, Width 1.6mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North, South, Stewart, Snares and Auckland Islands, from 0-100m - Odostomia pervaga Laws, 1939
Height 2.8mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North and South Islands, from 4-415m
- Odostomia pudica Suter, 1908
Height 5.2mm, Width 2.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0m - Odostomia takapunaensis Suter, 1908
Height 3.7mm, Width 2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0m - Odostomia vaga Laws, 1939
Height 3.6mm, Width 1.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, and Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands, from 0-805m
- Otopleura mitralis (A. Adams, 1854)
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Indo-West Pacific, Red Sea, Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 15m - Planpyrgiscus lawsi Dell, 1956
Height 5mm, Width 1.4mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island, from 475-640m
- Rissopsetia gracilis W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
Marine, Native - Endemic
Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 10-40m - Rissopsetia maoria Dell, 1956
Height 1.5mm, Width 0.65mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, South and Auckland Islands, from 0-805m
- Siogamaia morioria Laws, 1941
Height 3mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Eastern North Island (Matakaoa Point), and Snares, Bounty and Chatham Islands, from 11-165m - Striarcana tauranga Laws, 1937
Height 3mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0m
- Striodostomia orewa Laws, 1940
Height 1.5mm, Width 0.65mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0m - Striodostomia vestalis (R. Murdoch, 1905)
Height 4.4mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland and Campbell Islands, from 0-95m
- Syrnola crawfordi Powell, 1927
Height 5.3mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northern North Island, from 42m
- Syrnola menda Finlay, 1927
Height 6.7mm, Width 1.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, and northern and south-western South Island, from 37-508m
- Terelimella aupouria (Powell, 1937)
Height 2.3mm, Width 1.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and off Spirits Bay, from 29-622m - Terelimella benthicola Dell, 1956
Height 4.9mm, Width 1.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Eastern South Island, from 293-1104m
- Terelimella larochei (Powell, 1930)
Height 2.2mm, Width 0.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island as far south as Mayor Island, from 11-59m - Pyramidella dolabrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Indo-West Pacific. Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 42-47m - Eulimella coena Webster, 1905
Height 2.7mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0m
- Eulimella deplexa Hutton, 1885
Height 4.2mm, Width 1.4mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North, South and Chatham Islands, from 0-530m
- Eulimella levilirata Murdoch & Suter, 1906
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 201m - Eulimella limbata (Suter, 1907)
Height 4.5mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0m
- Puposyrnola fastigiata (Suter, 1906)
Height 4.3mm, Width 1.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern, north-western and south-western North Island, from 37-163m
- Puposyrnola missile Laws, 1937
Height 4.6mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 46m
- Raoulostraca inexpectata W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
Marine, Native - Endemic
Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 10-42m - Turbonilla acer (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.8mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern South Island, from 31-451m - Turbonilla aoteana Powell, 1930
Height 2.8mm, Width 0.7mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 4-103m - Turbonilla barrierensis (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.2mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 11-18m
- Turbonilla bucknilli (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.9mm, Width 1.1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island, from 0-148m
- Turbonilla campbellica Odhner, 1924
Height 7mm, Width 2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal, under stones
Southern South Island, Auckland, Campbell and Bounty Islands, from 0-113m - Turbonilla cookiana (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.3mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0-44m
- Turbonilla cryptolira (Laws, 1937)
Height 4mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings, North Island, northern South Island and Chatham Islands, from 0-23m
- Turbonilla dunedinensis (Laws, 1937)
Height 4.8mm, Width 1.4mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South Island, from 0-40m
- Turbonilla eques Laws, 1937
Height 7.5mm, Width 1.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, north-eastern and south-western North Island, and north-western South Island, from 82-1273m
- Turbonilla errabunda (Laws, 1937)
Height 4.3mm, Width 1.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North, South and Stewart Islands, from 0-420m
- Turbonilla finlayi (Powell, 1926)
Height 5.2mm, Width 1.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings, North and northern South Islands, from 0-200m
- Turbonilla forsteriana (Laws, 1937)
Height 4.3mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North and South Islands, from 0-220m - Turbonilla haroldi Laws, 1937
Height 6.4mm, Width 2.1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island, from 91m
- Turbonilla informis (Laws, 1937)
Height 3mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0-6m - Turbonilla jactura (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.2mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern South Island, from 13-415m
- Turbonilla kingi (Laws, 1937)
Height 5.1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and far northern North Island, from 14-805m
- Turbonilla lawsi (Powell, 1937)
Height 2.4mm, Width 0.6mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and far northern North Island, from 14-805m - Turbonilla lillingtoniana (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.7mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern North Island, and South, Stewart and Auckland Islands - Turbonilla mitis (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.5mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northern North Island, from 0-42m
- Turbonilla moorei Laws, 1937
Height 7.5mm, Width 2.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island, from 73-128m - Turbonilla oceanica W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
Marine, Native - Endemic
Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 10-30m - Turbonilla otakauicus (Laws, 1937)
Height 5mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island and Stewart Island, from 0-37m
- Turbonilla owenga (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.5mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Chatham Islands, from 15-40m
- Turbonilla powelli Bucknill, 1924
Height 5.2mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island, from 0-121m
- Turbonilla rakiura (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.6mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South, Stewart, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands, from 0-420m - Turbonilla scala (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.5mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island, from 91-346m
- Turbonilla stipes (Laws, 1937)
Height 2.5mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northern North Island, from 18-179m - Turbonilla suteri Powell, 1926
Height 5.5mm, Width 2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Cook Strait, South Island and Chatham Islands, from 37-555m
- Turbonilla taiaroa (Laws, 1937)
Height 4.1mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South Island, from 132-446m
- Turbonilla vegrandis (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.5mm, Width 1.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern South Island, from 5-451m
- Turbonilla verecunda (Laws, 1937)
Height 2.8mm, Width 0.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0-7m - Turbonilla vigilia (Laws, 1937)
Height 3.1mm, Width 0.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Northern North Island, from 18-103m
- Turbonilla waitemata (Laws, 1937)
Height 2.6mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North Island and northern South Island, from 6-132m
- Turbonilla zealandica (Hutton, 1873)
Height 5.8mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Cook Strait, South Island and Stewart Island, from 0-530m
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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