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Species List for Family: Cypraeidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Cypraeoidea (Superfamily) > Cypraeidae (Family)
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  • Family: Cypraeidae

  • Naria cernica (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870)
    Length 33mm, Width 20mm
    Poor Knights Cowrie, Marine
    Northland. Cape Maria van Diemen to Poor Knights Islands, to about 20 metres. Also Lord Howe Island, Kermadec Islands and New South Wales, Australia
    KA
  • Naria poraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Length 24mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Kermadec Islands (Raoul). Beach shells
    K
  • Monetaria caputserpentis (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Length 43mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    The entire Indo-West Pacific region, from east Africa to the Cocos Islands, off Central America. Australia and Kermadec Islands (beach shells)
    K
  • Monetaria moneta (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Length 20mm
    Money Cowrie, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Entire tripical Indian and Pacific Oceans, from east Africa to central America, including northern Australia and Kermadec Islands (beach shells)
    K
  • Talostolida teres (Gmelin, 1791)
    Cowrie, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Kermadec Islands (Raoul)
    K
  • Luria isabella (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Length 55mm
    Cowrie, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-Pacific, Kermadec Islands (Raoul). Beach shells
    K
  • Lyncina vitellus Linnaeus, 1758
    Length 55mm, Width 35mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands, Polynesia. Raoul Island, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Leigh
    KA
  • Talparia talpa (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Cowrie, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Kermadec Islands (Raoul)
    K
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