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  • Family: Aplysiidae

  • Aplysia argus Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830
    Animal 400mm
    Marine
    Northland. Worldwide in warm seas
  • Aplysia extraordinaria (Allan, 1932)
    Animal 400mm
    Sea Hare, Marine, An active swimmer, vigorously flapping its large parapodia and flexing its body up and down
    Kermadec Islands. Several specimens seen subtidally down to 30 metres in sand and fine gravel. Great Barrier Island below low tide
  • Aplysia juliana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
    Animal 300mm
    Marine
    North, South and Stewart Island. Intertidal and shallow subtidal. Also widespread in Pacific Ocean
  • Aplysia keraudreni Rang, 1828
    Animal 250mm
    Marine
    North and South Islands. Also Society Islands
  • Aplysia cf. parvula
    Animal 75mm
    Marine
    North and South Island, and Australia
  • Aplysia sagamiana Baba, 1949
    Animal 350mm
    Marine
  • Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817
    Animal 120mm
    Ragged Sea Hare, Marine, No internal shell
    North Island
  • Dolabrifera brazieri G.B. Sowerby II, 1870
    Length 16mm, Width 7mm. Animal 100mm
    Marine
    Northland east coast. Also New South Wales, Australia and Kermadec Islands
  • Stylocheilus longicauda (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
    Animal 75mm
    Marine, Shell absent. Slimmer body and longer tail than Bursatella leachii
    Northland, low intertidal. Also New South Wales, Australia and Lord Howe Island, intertidal to subtidal down to at least 27 metres
  • Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
    Marine
    Circum-tropical (Indo-West Pacific and Atlantic)
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