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Species List for Family: Callochitonidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Polyplacophora (Class) > Neoloricata (Subclass) > Chitonida (Order) > Chitonoidea (Superfamily) > Callochitonidae (Family)

  • Family: Callochitonidae

  • Callochiton crocinus (Reeve, 1847)
    Length 36mm, Width 21mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Non-endemic, Low tide under stones
    Australia and New Zealand. North-eastern and southern North Island, and north-eastern and southern South Island, from 0-27m
  • Callochiton empleurus (Hutton, 1872)
    Length 22mm, Width 9mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic
    Northern and south-western South Island and Foveaux Strait
  • Callochiton kapitiensis Mestayer, 1926
    Length 9mm, Width 5mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic
    King Bank, Three Kings Islands, Ranfurly Bank, south-western North Island, south-eastern South Island and Campbell Plateau, from 46-520m
  • Callochiton mortenseni Odhner, 1924
    Length 26mm, Width 16mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
    Campbell Island, from 0m
  • Callochiton oligosulculatus Kaas & Van Belle, 1985
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic
    Three Kings Islands and north-eastern North Island, from 4-59m
  • Callochiton perscrutandus (Iredale & Hull, 1929)
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
    Eastern South Island, from 0m
  • Callochiton sulculatus Suter, 1907
    Length 9mm, Width 6mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
    Southern South Island, from 0-55m
  • Eudoxochiton nobilis (Gray, 1843)
    Length 110mm, Width 58mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic, At low water on exposed coastal rocks
    Kermadec, North, South, Stewart and Auckland Islands, from 0-18m
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