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  • 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
    An
  • 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
    ACR.Fo.
  • 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
    AC
  • 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
    AC
  • Borniola bidentifera (Powell, 1933)
    Width 2.0mm, Height 1.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern and southern North Island. Intertidal
    AC
  • Borniola decapitata (Powell, 1939)
    Width 2.8mm, Height 2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Southern South Island, Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Bounty and Chatham Islands
    FMAn
  • 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
    KA
  • Borniola powelli Crozier, 1966
    Width 4.5mm, Height 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands
    A
  • Borniola profunda (Dell, 1952)
    Width 1.5mm, Height 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Challenger Plateau
    C
  • Borniola quadrata (Dell, 1956)
    Width 3.5mm, Height 2.8mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island, Auckland Islands and Chatham Rise
    FMAn
  • Borniola reniformis (Suter, 1908)
    Width 10mm, Height 7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands
    ACFMAn
  • Borniola taieriensis (Powell, 1939)
    Width 2.5mm, Height 2.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South-western South Island, and Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands
    FMAn
  • Draculamya minima Ponder, 1971
    Width 1.4mm, Height 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Eastern South Island and Stewart Island
    CF
  • Erycina parva (Deshayes, 1856)
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Shallow water to about 90 metres
    ACFM
  • 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
    ACFMAn
  • Lasaea australis (Lamarck, 1818)
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Mahia Peninsula
    A
  • 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. Mid tide in algal clumps to over 100 metres
    ACFMAn
  • 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
    ACFM
  • Lasaea parengaensis Powell, 1935
    Width 1.5mm, Height 1.2mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North and South Islands
    ACF
  • Lasaea sp. aff. rubra (Montagu, 1803)
    Marine
    Kermadec Islands
    K
  • 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
    ACM
  • 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
    AC
  • 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
    ACFM
  • Myllita vivens pinguis (Marwick, 1928)
    Width 4.3mm, Height 4mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Chatham Islands, common in beach drift
    M
  • 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
    A
  • 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
    KAC
  • Mysella henryi Fleming, 1948
    Width 3.8mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    South Island. Fiordland
    F
  • 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
    ACFR.Fo.
  • Mysella lachlani Dell, 1952
    Width 6mm, Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands, northern North Island, Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank
    ACM
  • Mysella larochei Powell, 1940
    Width 7.5mm, Height 5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Islands
    ACF
  • Mysella macquariensis (Hedley, 1916)
    Width 3.3mm, Height 2.7mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Macquarie Island
    An
  • Mysella morioria Dell, 1952
    Width 7.5mm, Height 5.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Mernoo Bank and Chatham Islands
    M
  • 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
    A
  • 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
    CFMAn
  • 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
    A
  • Tellimya benthicola Dell, 1956
    Length 3.6mm, Height 2.5mm
    Marine, Native - Endemic
    Bay of Plenty, eastern South Island and Chatham Islands
    ACFM
  • 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
    A
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