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  • Family: Pyramidellidae

  • Agatha georgiana (Hutton, 1885)
    Height 15mm, Width 6mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Stewart Island and Chatham Islands. Shallow water to 110 metres
  • Besla insularis (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
  • Besla rossiana Laws, 1941
    Height 2.2mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Auckland and Snares Islands
  • Besla subrugata (Powell, 1927)
    Height 1.8mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off south west Otago, 310 metres
  • Besla vaga Laws, 1941
    Height 1.9mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, 180 metres, to Otago Heads 70-90 metres
  • Besla waitangiensis Laws, 1941
    Height 1.5mm, Width 0.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Waitangi, Chatham Islands
  • Epigrus insularis W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
  • Evalea liricincta (Suter, 1908)
    Height 3mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Otago Heads to Stewart Island
  • Evalea plana Laws, 1941
    Height 3.1mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Snares Islands 90 metres, off Antipodes Islands 27 metres
  • Evalea propria Laws, 1941
    Height 3mm, Width 1.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Dunedin Harbour to Bluff
  • Evalea sabulosa (Suter, 1908)
    Height 4mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern Otago south. Snares, Bounty, Auckland and Campbell Islands
  • Finlayola lurida (Suter, 1908)
    Height 5.8mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland. Off Cuvier Island, 70 metres
  • Gumina dolichostoma (Suter, 1908)
    Height 6.5mm, Width 3.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to eastern Otago and Chatham Islands
  • Gumina minor Laws, 1940
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast, 22 metres
  • Herviera sp. cf. isidella (Melvill & Standen, 1898)
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
  • Ividella maoria Powell, 1940
    Height 3.3mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Far North. Between Spirits Bay and Three Kings Islands, 92 metres
  • Linopyrga rugata (Hutton, 1886)
    Height 2.9mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland east coast to Stewart Island, Chathams, Snares, Auckland and Bounty Islands
  • Linopyrga rugata parva Laws, 1941
    Height 2.3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Auckland
  • Longchaeus maculosus (Lamarck, 1822)
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
  • Obexomia denselirata (Suter, 1908)
    Height 2.1mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland east coast to Mahia
  • Odostomia acutangula Suter, 1908
    Height 2.4mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Stewart Island, 33 metres
  • Odostomia aucklandica Laws, 1939
    Height 4.1mm, Width 1.95mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland Islands
  • Odostomia cf. clara Brazier, 1877
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
  • Odostomia cf. metata Hedley, 1907
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
  • Odostomia chordata Suter, 1908
    Height 3.6mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast 45-70 metres
  • Odostomia corpulentoides Dell, 1956
    Height 4.2mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Fiordland, and off Chatham Islands
  • 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
    Northland, Auckland
  • Odostomia haurakiensis Laws, 1939
    Height 4mm, Width 1.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Hauraki Gulf, 45 metres
  • Odostomia hyphala R.B. Watson, 1886
    Height 6.3mm, Width 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North east of East Cape, 1280 metres
  • Odostomia incidata Suter, 1908
    Height 4.3mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Throughout NZ
  • Odostomia manukauensis Laws, 1939
    Height 2.3mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Manukau Harbour, Auckland
  • Odostomia murdochi Suter, 1913
    Height 4mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island
  • Odostomia parvacutangula Laws, 1939
    Height 2mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Auckland Islands, 175 metres
  • Odostomia pedica Laws, 1939
    Height 3.8mm, Width 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Snares Islands
  • Odostomia pervaga Laws, 1939
    Height 2.8mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland, Auckland
  • Odostomia pudica Suter, 1908
    Height 5.2mm, Width 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bay of Islands, Northland
  • Odostomia takapunaensis Suter, 1908
    Height 3.7mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Takapuna Reef, Auckland, to Mahia
  • Odostomia taumakiensis Suter, 1908
    Height 3mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Taumaki Island, west coast, South Island, 18 metres
  • Odostomia vaga Laws, 1939
    Height 3.6mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Stewart Island and Snares Island
  • Odostomia vestalis R. Murdoch, 1905
    Height 4.4mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Foveaux Strait, Stewart and South Island
  • Oscilla punicea W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
  • Otopleura mitralis (A. Adams, 1854)
    Marine
    Indo-Pacific, Red Sea, Kermadec Islands
  • Planpyrgiscus lawsi Dell, 1956
    Height 5mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off eastern Otago, 475-640 metres
  • Rissopsetia gracilis W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
  • Rissopsetia maoria Dell, 1956
    Height 1.5mm, Width 0.65mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Cape to Fiordland
  • Siogamaia morioria Laws, 1941
    Height 3mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands
  • Striarcana tauranga Laws, 1937
    Height 3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Tauranga, Bay of Plenty
  • Striodostomia orewa Laws, 1940
    Height 1.5mm, Width 0.65mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland, Auckland
  • Syrnola crawfordi Powell, 1927
    Height 5.3mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland. Off Ahipara, 42 metres
  • Syrnola menda Finlay, 1927
    Height 6.7mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands to Hauraki Gulf
  • Terelimella aupouria (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.3mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 170 metres
  • Terelimella benthicola Dell, 1956
    Height 4.9mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Eastern Otago, 475-640 metres
  • Terelimella larochei (Powell, 1930)
    Height 2.2mm, Width 0.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland east coast
  • Pyramidella dolabrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
  • Eulimella coena Webster, 1905
    Height 2.7mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Takapuna, Auckland
  • Eulimella deplexa Hutton, 1885
    Height 4.2mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Throughout NZ
  • Eulimella limbata (Suter, 1907)
    Height 4.5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bay of Islands, Northland to Taiaroa Heads, Otago
  • Puposyrnola fastigiata (Suter, 1906)
    Height 4.3mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland, Hauraki Gulf
  • Puposyrnola missile Laws, 1937
    Height 4.6mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off North Cape to Northland
  • Pyrgiscus otakauicus (Laws, 1937)
    Height 5mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Dunedin Harbour, 3-7 metres
  • Pyrgiscus taiaroa (Laws, 1937)
    Height 4.1mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Otago Heads, 130 metres
  • Raoulostraca inexpectata W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
  • Turbonilla acer (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.8mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Otago Heads, 70-90 metres
  • Turbonilla aoteana Powell, 1930
    Height 2.8mm, Width 0.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Northland east coast 10-20 metres
  • Turbonilla barrierensis (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.2mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Great Barrier Island, 10-20 metres
  • Turbonilla bucknilli (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.9mm, Width 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland to Bay of Plenty
  • Turbonilla campbellica Odhner, 1924
    Height 7mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Campbell, Auckland and Antipodes Islands, under stones
  • Turbonilla cookiana (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland and Hauraki Gulf
  • Turbonilla cryptolira (Laws, 1937)
    Height 4mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North Island, northern South Island and Chatham Islands
  • Turbonilla dunedinensis (Laws, 1937)
    Height 4.8mm, Width 1.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Dunedin Harbour, 3-5 metres
  • Turbonilla eques Laws, 1937
    Height 7.5mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Poor Knights Islands, 110 metres
  • Turbonilla errabunda (Laws, 1937)
    Height 4.3mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland, Otago Heads and Stewart Island
  • Turbonilla finlayi (Powell, 1926)
    Height 5.2mm, Width 1.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North Island
  • Turbonilla forsteriana (Laws, 1937)
    Height 4.3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Otago Heads and Oamaru, 90-130 metres
  • Turbonilla haroldi Laws, 1937
    Height 6.4mm, Width 2.1mm
    Marine
    Off Oamaru 90 metres
  • Turbonilla informis (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland
  • Turbonilla jactura (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.2mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Oamaru
  • Turbonilla kingi (Laws, 1937)
    Height 5.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland and Hauraki Gulf
  • Turbonilla lawsi (Powell, 1937)
    Height 2.4mm, Width 0.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 170 metres
  • Turbonilla lillingtoniana (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.7mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Cape Saunders, Otago, and Snares Islands
  • Turbonilla mitis (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.5mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northland and Chatham Islands
  • Turbonilla moorei Laws, 1937
    Height 7.5mm, Width 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Otago Heads, 75-130 metres
  • Turbonilla oceanica W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands
  • Turbonilla owenga (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Chatham Islands, 15-40 metres
  • Turbonilla powelli Bucknill, 1924
    Height 5.2mm, Width 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bay of Plenty
  • Turbonilla rakiura (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.6mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South, Stewart, Auckland, Bounty and Chatham Islands
  • Turbonilla scala (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Oamaru, 90 metres
  • Turbonilla stipes (Laws, 1937)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Off Three Kings Islands, 180 metres
  • Turbonilla suteri Powell, 1926
    Height 5.5mm, Width 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Cook Strait, South Island and Chatham Islands
  • Turbonilla vegrandis (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.5mm, Width 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Dunedin Harbour, 5-6 metres
  • Turbonilla verecunda (Laws, 1937)
    Height 2.8mm, Width 0.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland and Hauraki Gulf
  • Turbonilla vigilia (Laws, 1937)
    Height 3.1mm, Width 0.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland, Hauraki Gulf
  • Turbonilla waitemata (Laws, 1937)
    Height 2.6mm, Width 0.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland Harbour and Hauraki Gulf
  • Turbonilla zealandica (Hutton, 1873)
    Height 5.8mm, Width 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Cook Strait to Stewart Island
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