Species List for Family: Carditidae
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Cardita distorta Reeve, 1843
Length 32mm, Width 21mm, Marine, Endemic
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. From low tide to about 180 metres ACFMAnE.
Condylocuna concentrica (F. Bernard, 1897)
Width 1mm, Height 1.1mm, Marine, Endemic
South Island, Stewart, Snares and Bounty Islands CFMAnE.
Condylocuna mernoo (Dell, 1952)
Width 1.3mm, Height 1.1mm, Marine, Endemic
Mernoo Bank, western Chatham Rise CE.- Condylocuna torquata (Marwick, 1928)
Width 1.8mm, Height 1.5mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Chatham Islands, dredged 18 metres ME. - Cuna carditelloides (Suter, 1911)
Width 2.5mm, Height 3mm, Marine, Endemic
Off North, South, Chatham, Auckland and Campbell Islands ACFMAnE. 
Cuna compressidens (Powell, 1933)
Width 1.3mm, Height 1.4mm, Marine, Endemic
North Island East Coast, Northland to East Cape AE.
Cuna laqueus (Finlay, 1927)
Width 2.6mm, Height 2.6mm, Marine, Endemic
South Island, Foveaux Strait, and Snares Islands FAnE.- Cuna manawatawhia (Powell, 1937)
Width 2.6mm, Height 2.9mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, Northland and Bay of Plenty AE. 
Cuna mayi (Powell, 1930)
Width 1.8mm, Height 2.3mm, Marine, Endemic
North Island. Off Northland to Cook Strait and NW Nelson ACE.
Cuna mendica (Dell, 1952)
Width 1.8mm, Height 1.7mm, Marine, Endemic
Tasman Sea, west of North Island, in 980 metres CE.- Cuna waikukuensis (Powell, 1937)
Width 1.7mm, Height 1.9mm, Marine, Endemic
Off North Cape, trawled in 53 metres AE. - Pleuromeris benthicola Powell, 1937
Width 2.6mm, Height 2.3mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, and isolated records off Northland AE. - Pleuromeris latiuscula Powell, 1937
Width 2.2mm, Height 2.2mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Northland to East Cape AE. - Pleuromeris marshalli (Marwick, 1924)
Width 6mm, Height 6.5mm, Marine, Endemic
South, Stewart, Chatham, Bounty and Auckland Islands FMAnE. - Pleuromeris paucicostata Laws, 1940
Width 7.5mm, Height 9mm, Marine, Endemic
Northland to Bay of Plenty. Dredged to around 110 metres AE. 
Pleuromeris ultima Dell, 1956
Width 8.5mm, Height 7.5mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Chatham Islands 210-600 metres ME.
Pleuromeris zelandica (Deshayes, 1854)
Width 10mm, Height 9mm, Marine, Endemic
North, South and Stewart Island. Below low tide to over 200 metres ACFE.
Powellina brookesi Finlay, 1926
Width 13mm, Height 7mm, Marine, Endemic
Northland to Bay of Plenty and East Cape. Under stones at low tide AE.- Hamacuna aupouria (Powell, 1937)
Width 2.1mm, Height 2.3mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 260 metres AE. - Hamacuna gibbosa (Powell, 1937)
Width 2mm, Height 2.3mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Three Kings Islands, 260 metres AE. - Hamacuna otagoensis (Powell, 1927)
Width 1.2mm, 1.5mm, Marine, Endemic
Off Otago Heads to Foveaux Strait FE. 
Purpurocardia purpurata (Deshayes, 1854)
Width 45mm, Height 40mm, Marine, Endemic
North, South, Stewart, Chatham and Auckland Islands ACFMAnE.
Purpurocardia reinga (Powell, 1933)
Width 30mm, Height 22mm, Marine, Endemic
North Island, Far North AE.
Key to 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