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

  • Altenaeum charcoti (Lamy, 1906)
    Width 3.5mm, Height 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Macquarie Islands. Also South Georgia, South Shetland Islands, South Orkney Islands, Palmer Archipelago and Kerguelen Islands
  • Arthritica bifurca (Webster, 1908)
    Width 6mm, Height 5mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    North Island and northern South Island as far south as Banks Peninsula, from 0-72m
  • Arthritica crassiformis Powell, 1933
    Width 5.5mm, Height 4.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Commensal upon the pholad, rock boring Anchomasa, usually found around the base of the siphon and along the lower mantle edges
    North-eastern and south-western North Island and northern South Island as far south as Cape Campbell. Intertidal, from 0m
  • Arthritica hulmei Ponder, 1965
    Width 3.4mm, Height 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic, Commensal with a large polychaete worm, the seamouse, Aphrodita australis
    Northern north-western, north-eastern and south-western North Island and northern South Island as far south as Cloudy Bay, from 0-132m
  • Borniola bidentifera (Powell, 1933)
    Width 2.0mm, Height 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern and southern North Island. Intertidal, from 0-11m
  • Borniola decapitata (Powell, 1939)
    Width 2.8mm, Height 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Bounty and Chatham Islands, from 0-117m
  • Borniola neozelanica Powell, 1937
    Width 4.5mm, Height 3.3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    King and Middlesex Banks, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern North Island as far south-east as East Cape, and off Nugent Island, Kermadec Islands, from 93-805m
  • Borniola powelli Crozier, 1966
    Width 4.5mm, Height 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands
  • Borniola profunda (Dell, 1952)
    Width 1.5mm, Height 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Challenger Plateau, from 536m
  • Borniola quadrata (Dell, 1956)
    Width 3.5mm, Height 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island, Auckland Islands and Chatham Rise, from 141-640m
  • Borniola reniformis (Suter, 1908)
    Width 10mm, Height 7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, from 0-805m
  • Borniola taieriensis (Powell, 1939)
    Width 2.5mm, Height 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island, and Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, from 0-55m
  • Draculamya minima Ponder, 1971
    Width 1.4mm, Height 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island and Stewart Island, from 0-68m
  • Erycina parva (Deshayes, 1856)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, from 0-805m
  • Kellia cycladiformis (Deshayes, 1834)
    Width 16mm, Height 13mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, and Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland and Chatham Islands. Often found inside empty bivalves, from 0-346m
  • Lasaea australis (Lamarck, 1818)
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Mahia Peninsula, from 0m
  • Lasaea hinemoa Finlay, 1928
    Width 3.7mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands, from 0-106m
  • Lasaea maoria (Powell, 1933)
    Width 2.4mm, Height 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North-eastern and south-western North Island, Banks Peninsula, south-western South Island, and Chatham Islands, from 0-31m
  • Lasaea parengaensis Powell, 1935
    Width 1.5mm, Height 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North and South Islands
  • Lasaea sp. aff. rubra (Montagu, 1803)
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
  • Montacuta semiradiata Tate, 1889
    Width 2.7mm, Height 1.9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, North Island, eastern and south-western South Island, and Chatham Islands, from 72-1372m
  • Myllita stowei (Hutton, 1873)
    Width 15mm, Height 9mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, North Island and northern South Island as far south as Kaikoura. Attached to the under sides of stones on sand, from 0-188m
  • Myllita vivens Finlay, 1926
    Width 3.3mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, North Island, far northern and eastern South Island, and Chatham Islands. Shallow sublittoral, from 0-9m
  • Myllita vivens pinguis (Marwick, 1928)
    Width 4.3mm, Height 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands, common in beach drift
  • Mysella alpha Powell, 1937
    Width 2.2mm, Height 1.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, off Spirits Bay and North Cape, and Ranfurly Bank, from 68-257m
  • Mysella beta Powell, 1937
    Width 3.3mm, Height 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, south-western North Island, and Kermadec Islands, from 121-805m
  • Mysella henryi Fleming, 1948
    Width 3.8mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Fiordland
  • Mysella hounselli (Powell, 1931)
    Width 6.3mm, Height 4.3mm
    Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
    Northern and south-western North Island, and South and Stewart Islands, from 7-786m
  • Mysella lachlani Dell, 1952
    Width 6mm, Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, northern North Island, Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank, from 95-805m
  • Mysella larochei Powell, 1940
    Width 7.5mm, Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Islands, from 0-256m
  • Mysella macquariensis (Hedley, 1916)
    Width 3.3mm, Height 2.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Macquarie Island
  • Mysella morioria Dell, 1952
    Width 7.5mm, Height 5.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Mernoo Bank and Chatham Islands, from 0-238m
  • Mysella tellinula (Odhner, 1924)
    Width 5.2mm, Height 4.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Whangaruru Harbour. Intertidal, from 0-200m
  • Mysella unidentata (Odhner, 1924)
    Width 3.3mm, Height 2.6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western North Island, eastern and south-western South Island, and Stewart, Snares, Bounty and Chatham Islands, from 0-476m
  • Tellimya aupouria (Ponder, 1968)
    Width 5mm, Height 3.1mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 20-508m
  • Tellimya benthicola Dell, 1956
    Length 3.6mm, Height 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bay of Plenty, eastern South Island and Chatham Islands, from 137-604m
  • Tellimya reinga Crozier, 1966
    Length 12mm, Height 6mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    West Norfolk Ridge, Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as East Cape, from 47-805m
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