Species List for Family: Eulimidae
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Family: Eulimidae
- Aclis expansa (Powell, 1930)
Height 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island as far south as Motiti Island, from 25-63m
- Aclis maoria Powell, 1937
Height 3.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern Norfolk Ridge, Three Kings Islands, and off Cape Reinga, from 120-805m
- Aclis pseudopareora Powell, 1940
Height 3.2mm, Width 1.2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island and northern South Island, from 18-84m
- Aclis subcarinata (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Height 2.9mm, Width 1.04mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern and south-western North Island and south-western South Island, from 15-146m
- Aclis terebra (Powell, 1930)
Height 2.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Cape Brett, from 20-805m
- Annulobalcis marshalli Warén, 1981
Height 17mm, Width 5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Mayor Island, from 388-488m
- Awanuia dilatata Powell, 1927
Height 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island as far south as Mahia Peninsula, from 0-89m
- Awanuia porcellana Ponder, 1967
Height 3mm, Width 1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 0m
- Chileutomia neozelanica Powell, 1940
Height 5mm, Width 1.6mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Poor Knights Islands, from 20-206m
- Crinolamia kermadecensis (Knudsen, 1964)
Height 3.75mm, Width 2.0mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Kermadec Trench, from 8210-8300m - Curveulima aupouria (Powell, 1937)
Height 3.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands and Ranfurly Bank, from 92-310m - Curveulima bollonsi (Powell, 1937)
Height 2.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island and Cook Strait, from 80-137m
- Curveulima otakauica (Dell, 1956)
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island and Bounty Islands, from 135-530m
- Curveulima titahica (Suter, 1908)
Height 4mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
Bay of Plenty and Wellington area, from 0m - Eulima perspicua (W.R.B. Oliver, 1915)
Height 5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Kermadec Islands, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern and south-western North Island, from 0-103m - Fuscapex ophioacanthicola Warén, 1981
Marine, Native - Endemic, Parasitic on Ophioacantha sp
Kermadec Islands, from 1188-1225m
- Fusceulima goodingi Warén, 1981
Height 3.3mm, Width 0.9mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, Living on ecinoid Centrostephanus rodgersi (A. Agassiz)
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 0-104m
- Fusceulima mangonuica (Powell, 1940)
Height 1.1mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 11-103m
- Fusceulima murdochi (Hedley, 1904)
Height 2.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern North Island (Wellington), South Island and Stewart Island, from 0-350m - Hypermastus bulbulus (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Height 13mm, Width 3mm
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
North-eastern and south-western North Island, from 0-201m
- Larochella alta Powell, 1927
Height 1.5mm, Width 0.6mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, southern South Island, Stewart Island and Chatham Islands, from 0-805m - Larochella toreuma Powell, 1927
Height 1.25mm, Width 0.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and southern North Island, western South Island, Stewart Island and Chatham Islands, from 0-33m
- Melanella alertae (Dell, 1956)
Height 4.5mm, Width 1.3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern South Island, from 475-640m
- Melanella archeyi (Finlay, 1928)
Height 5.75mm, Width 2.25mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Stewart Island and Chatham Islands, from 0-11m
- Melanella aucklandica (Suter, 1909)
Height 6.5mm, Width 2.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Stewart, Auckland, Antipodes and Chataham Islands, from 0-140m - Melanella hadalis Knudsen, 1964
Height 4.6mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Kermadec Trench, from 6660-6770m - Melanella luminosa B.A. Marshall, 1997
Height 5.75mm, Width 2.25mm
Marine, Native - Endemic, Animal bioluminescent, parasitic on the red (carnleyensis) form of the holothurian Ocnus brevidentis (Hutton, 1872)
South-western South Island, Stewart and Chatham Islands, from 0-238m
- Melanella maoria (Powell, 1940)
Height 19mm, Width 6mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Cape Maria van Diemen, from 0m
- Melanella otagoensis (Powell, 1927)
Height 2.0mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-western North Island, southern South Island, and Auckland Islands, from 11-360m
- Melanella oxyacme (Suter, 1908)
Height 5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 70m - Melanella paxillus (Hedley, 1904)
Height 3mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern South Island, Stewart Island and Auckland Islands, from 20-150m - Melanella puhana Dell, 1956
Height 6mm, Width 1.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
South-eastern North Island, eastern South Island and Chatham Islands, from 476-1463m
- Melanella vegrandis (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Height 7mm, Width 2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island, from 201-248m
- Pelseneeria bountyensis (Powell, 1933)
Height 3.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Southern South Island, and Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, from 15-620m
- Pelseneeria secunda (Powell, 1940)
Height 1.6mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank and Three Kings Islands, from 103-805m - Pictobalcis articulata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
Height 30mm, Width 9mm
Marine
Eastern Pacific. Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south-east as Cape Runaway (Lottin Point), from 0-805m
- Punctifera ophiomoerae Warén, 1981
Marine, Native - Endemic, Parasitic on Ophiomoeris obstricta
Kermadec Islands, from 1188-1225m
- Pyramidelloides pagoda (Powell, 1926)
Height 2.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Maria van Diemen, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Motiti Island, from 0-622m
- Ruapukea allanae E.C. Smith, 1962
Height 1.5mm, Width 0.7mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Stewart Island, from 0-55m
- Ruapukea carolus Dell, 1952
Height 1.5mm, Width 0.7mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Foveaux Strait, from 24m - Sabinella infrapatula (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
Height 5mm, Width 2mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern North Island as far south-east as Ranfurly Bank, from 79-461m
- Scalaronoba costata Powell, 1927
Height 0.5mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Middlesex Bank, Three Kings Islands, north-eastern and south-western North Island, and southern South Island, from 0-805m - Scalaronoba secunda Powell, 1940
Height 0.8mm, Width 0.45mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
North-eastern and south-western North Island and far northern South Island, from 13-134m
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
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