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  • Family: Lottiidae

  • Actinoleuca campbelli (Filhol, 1880)
    Length 6mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Campbell, Antipodes and Auckland Islands
    AnE.
  • Actinoleuca campbelli bountyensis Powell, 1955
    Length 8mm, Width 7mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Bounty Islands
    AnE.
  • Actinoleuca macquariensis (Hedley, 1916)
    Length 12mm, Width 10mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Macquarie Island, intertidal
    AnE.
  • Asteracmea suteri (Iredale, 1915)
    Length 3.5mm, Width 2.5mm, Height 1.5mm
    Marine, Endemic, Living below low tide, or washed up in shell drift
    North, South, Stewart & Snares Islands
    ACFAnE.
  • Atalacmea fragilis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1823)
    Length 17mm, Width 13mm, Height 2mm
    Fragile Limpet, Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Island
    ACFE.
  • Atalacmea multilinea Powell, 1934
    Length 11mm, Width 7mm, Height 1.75mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Otago and Stewart Island
    FE.
  • Notoacmea badia W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
    Length 11mm, Width 9mm, Height 3.5mm
    Marine, Endemic, At low tide, in clean tidal pools on exposed shores
    South Island, Otago
    FE.
  • Notoacmea cellanoides W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
    Length 57mm, Width 23mm, Height 8mm
    Marine, Endemic, More solid than pileopsis, with strong radial ribs and brown interior
    North Island and northern South Island
    ACFE.
  • Notoacmea daedala (Suter, 1907)
    Length 16mm, Width 14mm, Height 6mm
    Marine, Endemic, Under boulders resting on clean sand, from intertidal flats to exposed shores
    North, South and Stewart Islands
    ACFE.
  • Notoacmea elongata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
    Length 20mm, Width 10mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Endemic, Under boulders from mud flats to exposed shores
    North and South Islands
    ACFE.
  • Notoacmea parviconoidea (Suter, 1907)
    Length 12mm, Width 9mm, Height 6mm
    Marine, Endemic, On rocks and mussels at low tide
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
    ACFME.
  • Notoacmea pileopsis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
    Length 33mm, Width 28mm, Height 12mm
    Marine, Endemic, Broadly ovate, outer surface finely radially lirate. Interior with an almost black margin
    North Island and northern South Island
    ACE.
  • Notoacmea potae Nakano, Marshall, Kennedy & Spencer,2009
    Length 8.8mm, Width 6mm
    Marine, Endemic, On rocks in sheltered inlets, or attached to dead bivalve shells
    North and South Island
    ACFE.
  • Notoacmea rapida Nakano, Marshall, Kennedy & Spencer,2009
    Length 6.8mm, Width 3.5mm
    Marine, Endemic, In muddy harbours, mainly on dead bivalves, usually on the inside of the valves
    North Island. Northland to Napier
    ACFE.
  • Notoacmea scapha (Suter, 1907)
    Length 10mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North and South Islands, in harbours on Zostera and dead shells
    ACFE.
  • Notoacmea scopulina W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
    Length 19.7mm, Width 15mm, Height 5mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North and South Island. In the high intertidal zone on exposed shores
    ACE.
  • Notoacmea sturnus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)
    Length 31.9mm, Width 23mm, Height 13mm
    Marine, Endemic, Narrowly elliptical, with the apex at the anterior end. Exterior is smooth
    South Island, from Banks Peninsula south. Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Bounty, Antipodes & Macquarie Islands
    FAnE.
  • Notoacmea subantarctica W.R.B. Oliver, 1926
    Length 19mm, Width 14mm
    Marine, Endemic, Inhabits the high intertidal zone to splash zone on exposed shores
    Auckland and Campbell Islands
    AnE.
  • Notoacmea subtilis (Suter, 1907)
    Length 6mm, Width 5mm, Height 3mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Northland to East Cape
    ACE.
  • Notoacmea turbatrix Nakano, Marshall, Kennedy & Spencer,2009
    Length 7mm, Width 5mm
    Marine, Endemic, Low tide, on rocks and shells in exposed rock pools
    North and South Islands
    ACFE.
  • Patelloida corticata (Hutton, 1880)
    Length 27mm, Width 22mm, Height 13mm
    Marine, Endemic
    North, South and Stewart Islands
    ACFE.
  • Radiacmea inconspicua (Gray in Dieffenbach, 1843)
    Length 19mm, Width 15mm, Height 8mm
    Marine, Endemic, At low tide, often on the backs of Paua
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
    ACFME.
  • Radiacmea intermedia (Suter, 1907)
    Length 11mm, Width 9mm, Height 4.5mm
    Marine, Endemic
    Off Bounty Islands
    AnE.
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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil