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Species List for Family: Galeommatidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Autobranchia (Subclass) > Heteroconchia (Infraclass) > Euhetrodonta (Subterclass) > Imparidentia (Superorder) > Galeommatida (Order) > Galeommatoidea (Superfamily) > Galeommatidae (Family)
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  • Family: Galeommatidae

  • Divariscintilla maoria Powell, 1932
    Width 7mm, Height 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Low tide, attached to walls of burrows of mantis shrimp Heterosquilla tricarinata.
    South-eastern North Island as far south as Motuhora Island. Intertidal
    AC
  • Scintilla stevensoni Powell, 1932
    Width 7mm, Height 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Great Barrier Island. Under stones and in rock crevices at and below low tide
    KA
  • Scintillona zelandica (Odhner, 1924)
    Width 6mm, Height 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern and southern North Island, northern, eastern and south-western South Island, and Stewart and Auckland Islands. Attached to holothurian, Trochodonta dendyi
    ACFAn
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