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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
  • 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
  • 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
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