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Species List for Family: Callochitonidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Polyplacophora (Class) > Neoloricata (Subclass) > Chitonida (Order) > Chitonoidea (Superfamily) > Callochitonidae (Family)
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  • Family: Callochitonidae

  • Callochiton crocinus (Reeve, 1847)
    Length 36mm, Width 21mm
    Chiton, Marine, Low tide under stones
    North and South Island. Also Western Australia to S Queensland and Tasmania
    ACF
  • Callochiton empleurus (Hutton, 1872)
    Length 22mm, Width 9mm
    Chiton, Marine, Endemic
    Fiordland, Stewart, Auckland and Campbell Islands
    FAnE.
  • Callochiton kapitiensis Mestayer, 1926
    Length 9mm, Width 5mm
    Chiton, Marine, Endemic
    North and South Island, as far south as Campbell Plateau
    ACFAnE.
  • Callochiton mortenseni Odhner, 1924
    Length 26mm, Width 16mm
    Chiton, Marine, Endemic
    Campbell Island
    AnE.
  • Callochiton oligosulculatus Kaas & Van Belle, 1985
    Chiton, Marine, Endemic
    AE.
  • Callochiton perscrutandus (Iredale & Hull, 1929)
    Chiton, Marine, Endemic
    CE.
  • Callochiton sulculatus Suter, 1907
    Length 9mm, Width 6mm
    Chiton, Marine, Endemic
    South Island
    FE.
  • Eudoxochiton nobilis (Gray in Dieffenbach, 1843)
    Length 110mm, Width 58mm
    Chiton, Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Islands. At low water on exposed coastal rocks
    KACFE.
Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil