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  • Family: Philobryidae

  • Adacnarca harrisonae (Powell, 1927)
    Length 1.5mm, Height 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island
    FAn
  • 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
    CFMAn
  • Adacnarca ornata (Crozier, 1966)
    Length 1.8mm, Height 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank and N of Three Kings Islands, trawled in 800 metres
    A
  • Adacnarca pileopsis (Powell, 1927)
    Length 1.3mm, Height 0.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island
    F
  • Adacnarca trapezina (F. Bernard, 1897)
    Length 1.5mm, Height 1.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-eastern South Island and Stewart Island
    CFAn
  • 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
    A
  • 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
    CFMAn
  • Cosa dispar Powell, 1937
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands and off Cape Reinga
    A
  • Cosa filholi (F. Bernard, 1897)
    Width 2.6mm, Height 3.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western North Island, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands
    CFMAn
  • 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
    A
  • 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
    A
  • 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
    A
  • Cratis retiaria Powell, 1937
    Width 2.5mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands and NW of Cape Reinga
    A
  • Lissarca aucklandica E.A. Smith, 1902
    Length 5mm, Height 3.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Auckland, Campbell and Bounty Islands
    An
  • Lissarca benthicola (Dell, 1956)
    Height 6.7mm, Length 4.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island and western Chatham Rise
    F
  • Lissarca exilis Suter, 1913
    Length 3.2mm, Height 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island, Stewart and Snares Islands
    FAn
  • Lissarca pisum Suter, 1913
    Length 3.5mm, Height 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bounty Islands
    An
  • Lissarca stationis Fleming, 1948
    Length 1.6mm, Height 1.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Fiordland
    F
  • Lissarca stewartiana Powell, 1935
    Length 2.1mm, Height 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Stewart Island. In shell sand
    F
  • Philobrya acutangula (Powell, 1935)
    Height 4.9mm, Width 4.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands
    AC
  • Philobrya hamiltoni (Hedley, 1916)
    Height 6mm, Width 4.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Macquarie Island, below low tide
    An
  • Philobrya meleagrina (F. Bernard, 1896)
    Width 2.5mm, Height 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Antipodes and Chatham Islands
    FMAn
  • Philobrya modiolus Suter, 1913
    Width 3mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South, Stewart, Snares, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands
    MAn
  • 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
    AC
  • 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
    ACF
  • Philobrya sculpturalis (Dell, 1956)
    Height 6mm, Width 4.4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island, Chatham Rise and Bounty Islands
    FMAn
  • 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
    CFMAn
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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil