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Species List for Family: Philobryidae
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  • Family: Philobryidae

  • Adacnarca harrisonae (Powell, 1927)
    Length 1.5mm, Height 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island
  • Adacnarca minuta (E.A. Smith, 1898)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern North Island, and South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands, Pukaki Rise, Mernoo Bank and Chatham Rise
  • Adacnarca ornata (Crozier, 1966)
    Length 1.8mm, Height 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank and N of Three Kings Islands, trawled in 800 metres
  • Adacnarca pileopsis (Powell, 1927)
    Length 1.3mm, Height 0.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island
  • Adacnarca trapezina (F. Bernard, 1897)
    Length 1.5mm, Height 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island and Stewart Island
  • Aupouria parvula Powell, 1937
    Width 1.6mm, Height 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, off Spirits Bay, and Bay of Islands. Trawled in about 260 metres
  • Cosa costata (F. Bernard, 1896)
    Width 2.5mm, Height 3.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands, Mernoo Bank and Pukaki Rise. Shallow water to about 180 metres
  • Cosa dispar Powell, 1937
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands and off Cape Reinga
  • Cosa filholi (F. Bernard, 1897)
    Width 2.6mm, Height 3.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western North Island, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands
  • Cosa laevicostata Powell, 1933
    Width 1.8mm, Height 2.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, Spirits and Tom Bowling Bays, and Ranfurly Bank
  • Cosa serratocostata Powell, 1933
    Height 2.8mm, Width 2.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands and northern North Island as far south as Bay of Islands
  • Cratis delicatula Powell, 1937
    Height 3mm, Width 2.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as East Cape
  • Cratis retiaria Powell, 1937
    Width 2.5mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands and NW of Cape Reinga
  • Lissarca aucklandica E.A. Smith, 1902
    Length 5mm, Height 3.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland, Campbell and Bounty Islands
  • Lissarca benthicola (Dell, 1956)
    Height 6.7mm, Length 4.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island and western Chatham Rise
  • Lissarca exilis Suter, 1913
    Length 3.2mm, Height 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island, Stewart and Snares Islands
  • Lissarca pisum Suter, 1913
    Length 3.5mm, Height 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bounty Islands
  • Lissarca stationis Fleming, 1948
    Length 1.6mm, Height 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Fiordland
  • Lissarca stewartiana Powell, 1935
    Length 2.1mm, Height 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island. In shell sand
  • Philobrya acutangula (Powell, 1935)
    Height 4.9mm, Width 4.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands
  • Philobrya hamiltoni (Hedley, 1916)
    Height 6mm, Width 4.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Macquarie Island, below low tide
  • Philobrya meleagrina (F. Bernard, 1896)
    Width 2.5mm, Height 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Antipodes and Chatham Islands
  • Philobrya modiolus Suter, 1913
    Width 3mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South, Stewart, Snares, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands
  • Philobrya munita (Finlay, 1930)
    Height 4.2mm, Width 3.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Spirits Bay and north-eastern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula
  • Philobrya pinctada (Finlay, 1930)
    Height 5.6mm, Width 4.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands, eastern North Island, Cook Strait, and eastern South Island as far south as Otago Peninsula
  • Philobrya sculpturalis (Dell, 1956)
    Height 6mm, Width 4.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island, Chatham Rise and Bounty Islands
  • Verticipronus mytilus Hedley, 1904
    Height 5.5mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Western North Island, South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes and Bounty Islands
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