List of marine molluscs of New Zealand

This is a list of the marine molluscs of the country of New Zealand
New Zealand
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, which are a part of the molluscan fauna of New Zealand, which is a part of the biodiversity of New Zealand

Biodiversity of New Zealand

The biodiversity of New Zealand, a large Pacific archipelago, is one of the most unusual on Earth, due to its long isolation from other continental landmasses. Its affinities are derived from Gondwana, from which it separated 82 million years ago, New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island, both of which...

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Marine molluscs include saltwater snail

Snail

Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s, clam

Clam

The word "clam" can be applied to freshwater mussels, and other freshwater bivalves, as well as marine bivalves.In the United States, "clam" can be used in several different ways: one, as a general term covering all bivalve molluscs...

s and other classes of Mollusca. This list does not include the land and freshwater species.

Polyplacophora

Acanthochitonidae

Acanthochitonidae is a family of chitons.-Description:These small to large chitons are characterised by a broad girdle with erect tufts of up to ten large bristles. The coarsely granular valves of the shell are partially overlapped by the girdle. This girdle is all covered by coarse spines. The...

Acanthochitona thileniusi
Acanthochitona thileniusi
Acanthochitona thileniusi is a very rare species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae. The only specimens have been found in Tauranga Harbour in New Zealand.-References:...
Acanthochitona zelandica
Acanthochitona zelandica
Acanthochitona zelandica is a species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Craspedochiton rubiginosus - Craspedochiton rubiginosus rubiginosus
Craspedochiton rubiginosus rubiginosus
Craspedochiton rubiginosus rubiginosus is a subspecies of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae."Rubiginosus" is latin for "rusty or rust-colored". -References:...

, Craspedochiton rubiginosus oliveri
Craspedochiton rubiginosus oliveri
Craspedochiton rubiginosus oliveri is a subspecies of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Cryptoconchus porosus
Notoplax aupouria
Notoplax aupouria
Notoplax aupouria is a very rare species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Notoplax cuneata
Notoplax cuneata
Notoplax cuneata is a rare species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Notoplax facilis
Notoplax facilis
Notoplax facilis is a very rare species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Notoplax latalamina
Notoplax latalamina
Notoplax latalamina is a species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Notoplax mariae
Notoplax mariae
Notoplax mariae is a species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Notoplax violacea
Notoplax violacea
Notoplax violacea is a species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Notoplax websteri
Notoplax websteri
Notoplax websteri is a very rare species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

Mopaliidae

Mopaliidae is an extinct of polyplacophoran mollusc....

Aerilamma murdochi
Aerilamma murdochi
Aerilamma murdochi is an uncommon species of chiton in the family Mopaliidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Diaphoroplax biramosus
Diaphoroplax biramosus
Diaphoroplax biramosus is a rare species of chiton in the family Mopaliidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Frembleya egregia
Frembleya egregia
Frembleya egregia is a species of chiton in the family Mopaliidae, the only member of the genus Frembleya.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Guildingia obtecta
Guildingia obtecta
Guildingia obtecta is a large species of chiton in the family Mopaliidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Maorichiton caelatus
Maorichiton caelatus
Maorichiton caelatus is a species of chiton in the family Mopaliidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Maorichiton schauinslandi
Maorichiton schauinslandi
Maorichiton schauinslandi is a species of chiton in the family Mopaliidae....
Plaxiphora australis
Plaxiphora australis
Plaxiphora australis is a very small species of chiton in the family Mopaliidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

Callochitonidae

Callochiton crocinus
Callochiton crocinus
Callochiton crocinus is a species of chiton in the family Callochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Callochiton empleurus
Callochiton empleurus
Callochiton empleurus is a species of chiton in the family Callochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Callochiton kapitiensis
Callochiton kapitiensis
Callochiton kapitiensis is a species of chiton in the family Callochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1*...
Callochiton mortenseni
Callochiton mortenseni
Callochiton mortenseni is a species of chiton in the family Callochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

Chitonidae

Chitonidae is a family of chitons or polyplacophorans, marine mollusks whose shell is composed of eight articulating plates or valves. There are fifteen extant genera in three subfamilies.-Subfamilies and genera:...

Chiton glaucus
Chiton glaucus
Chiton glaucus, or the green chiton, is a species of chiton, a marine polyplacophoran mollusk in the family Chitonidae, the typical chitons. It is the most common chiton species in New Zealand...
Onithochiton marmoratus
Onithochiton marmoratus
Onithochiton marmoratus is a species of chiton in the family Chitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Onithochiton neglectus - Onithochiton neglectus neglectus
Onithochiton neglectus neglectus
Onithochiton neglectus neglectus is a subspecies of chiton in the family Chitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

, Onithochiton neglectus opiniosus
Onithochiton neglectus opiniosus
Onithochiton neglectus opiniosus is a subspecies of chiton in the family Chitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

, Onithochiton neglectus subantarcticus
Onithochiton neglectus subantarcticus
Onithochiton neglectus subantarcticus is a subspecies of chiton in the family Chitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Rhyssoplax aerea - Rhyssoplax aerea aerea
Rhyssoplax aerea aerea
Rhyssoplax aerea aerea is a subspecies of chiton in the family Chitonidae.-References:* Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

, Rhyssoplax aerea huttoni
Rhyssoplax aerea huttoni
Rhyssoplax aerea huttoni is a subspecies of chiton in the family Chitonidae, endemic to New Zealand.-References:* Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Rhyssoplax canaliculata
Rhyssoplax canaliculata
Rhyssoplax canaliculata is a species of chiton in the family Chitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Rhyssoplax chathamensis
Rhyssoplax chathamensis
Rhyssoplax chathamensis is a species of chiton in the family Chitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Rhyssoplax clavata
Rhyssoplax clavata
Rhyssoplax clavata is an uncommon species of chiton in the family Chitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Rhyssoplax stangeri
Rhyssoplax stangeri
Rhyssoplax stangeri is a species of chiton in the family Chitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Rhyssoplax suteri
Rhyssoplax suteri
Rhyssoplax suteri is a rare species of chiton in the family Chitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Sypharochiton pelliserpentis
Sypharochiton pelliserpentis
Sypharochiton pelliserpentis is a species of chiton in the family Chitonidae....
Sypharochiton sinclairi
Sypharochiton sinclairi
Sypharochiton sinclairi is a species of chiton in the family Chitonidae....
Sypharochiton torri
Sypharochiton torri
Sypharochiton torri is a species of chiton in the family Chitonidae....

Callochitonidae

Eudoxochiton nobilis
Eudoxochiton nobilis
Eudoxochiton nobilis is a large uncommon chiton of the family Callochitonidae.- References :* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

Ischnochitonidae

Ischnochitonidae is an extinct of polyplacophoran mollusc....

Ischnochiton circumvallatus
Ischnochiton circumvallatus
Ischnochiton circumvallatus is a species of chiton in the family Ischnochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Ischnochiton granulifer
Ischnochiton granulifer
Ischnochiton granulifer is a small species of chiton in the family Ischnochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Ischnochiton luteoroseus
Ischnochiton luteoroseus
Ischnochiton luteoroseus is a minute species of chiton in the family Ischnochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Ischnochiton maorianus
Ischnochiton maorianus
Ischnochiton maorianus is a species of chiton in the family Ischnochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

Leptochitonidae

Leptochitonidae is an extinct of polyplacophoran mollusc....

Lepidopleurus finlayi
Lepidopleurus finlayi
Lepidopleurus finlayi is a species of chiton in the family Leptochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Lepidopleurus inquinatus
Lepidopleurus inquinatus
Lepidopleurus inquinatus is a species of chiton in the family Leptochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Lepidopleurus otagoensis
Lepidopleurus otagoensis
Lepidopleurus otagoensis is a species of chiton in the family Leptochitonidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

Loricidae

Lorica haurakiensis

Gastropoda

Onchidiidae

Onchidiidae are a family of small, air-breathing sea slugs. They are shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod molluscs. Onchidiidae is the only family within the superfamily Onchidioidea....

Onchidella nigricans
Onchidella nigricans
Onchidella nigricans is a species of small, air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidiidae.-References:...

Facelinidae

Facelinidae is a taxonomic family of colorful sea slugs. These are specifically aeolid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs.- 2005 taxonomy :...

Babakina caprinsulensis
Babakina caprinsulensis
Babakina caprinsulensis is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch in the family Babakinidae.It is found in shallow water along part of the coast of North Island, New Zealand....

Calliostomatidae

Calliostomatidae is a family of sea snails within the superfamily Trochoidea and the clade Vetigastropoda.- Description :The Calliostomatidae are unusually diverse. They are characterized by a stepped spire and a pointy aperture. They may possess or lack an umbilicus. The columella is sometimes...

Calliostoma selectum
Calliostoma selectum
Calliostoma selectum is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calliostomatidae, the calliostoma top snails.- Further reading :...

Littorinidae

Littorinidae is a taxonomic family of over 200 species of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha, commonly known as periwinkles and found world-wide.-Names:...

Littorina unifasciata antipodum
Littorina unifasciata antipodum
Austrolittorina antipodum , known as the Banded periwinkleis a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.- Distribution :This subspecies occurs in New Zealand...

Rissoidae

Rissoidae is a large family of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.-Distribution and habitat:...

Alvinia gallinacea
Alvinia gallinacea
Alvinia gallinacea is a species of minute sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.- Original description :...
Alvinia gradatoides
Alvinia gradatoides
Alvinia gallinacea is a species of minute sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Rissoidae.- Original description :...

Trochidae

The Trochidae, common name top snails, are a taxonomic family of very small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda ....

Fautor onustus
Fautor onustus
Fautor onustus is a small deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calliostomatidae....
Fossarina rimata
Fossarina rimata
Fossarina rimata is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top snails....
Herpetopoma bella
Herpetopoma bella
Herpetopoma bella is a species of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontidae....
Herpetopoma benthicola
Herpetopoma benthicola
Herpetopoma benthicola is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontidae....
Herpetopoma larochei: Herpetopoma larochei larochei
Herpetopoma larochei larochei
Herpetopoma larochei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontidae....

, Herpetopoma larochei alacerrima
Herpetopoma larochei alacerrima
Herpetopoma larochei alacerrima is a subspecies of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontidae....
Herpetopoma mariae
Herpetopoma mariae
Herpetopoma mariae is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontidae.- Original description :Herpetopoma mariae was originally discovered and described by Harold John Finlay in 1930. Finlay's original text reads as follows:-References:This article incorporates public domain text...
Homalopoma crassicostata
Homalopoma crassicostata
Homalopoma crassicostata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae....
Homalopoma fluctuata
Homalopoma fluctuata
Homalopoma fluctuata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae....
Homalopoma imperforata
Homalopoma imperforata
Homalopoma imperforata is a species of minute sea snail with a calcareous operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae....
Homalopoma micans
Homalopoma micans
Homalopoma micans is a species of minute deepwater sea snail with a calcareous operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae....
Homalopoma nana
Homalopoma nana
Homalopoma nana is a species of a minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae.- Original description :Homalopoma nana was originally discovered and described as Argalista nana by Harold John Finlay in 1930...
Homalopoma rotella
Homalopoma rotella
Homalopoma rotella is a species of minute sea snail with a calcareous operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae....
Homalopoma umbilicata
Homalopoma umbilicata
Homalopoma umbilicata is a species of minute deepwater sea snail with a calcareous operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae....
Homalopoma variecostata
Homalopoma variecostata
Homalopoma variecostata is a species of minute deepwater sea snail with a calcareous operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae....

Fissurellidae

Fissurisepta festiva
Fissurisepta festiva
Fissurisepta festiva is a species of keyhole limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fissurellidae....
Monodilepas diemenensis
Monodilepas diemenensis
Monodilepas diemenensis is species of small sea snail, a keyhole limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.This species is found at North Island, New Zealand.- Original description :...
Monodilepas otagoensis
Monodilepas otagoensis
Monodilepas otagoensis is a species of small sea snail, a keyhole limpet, a subspecies of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.This species has only been found in New Zealand....
Scutus breviculus
Scutus breviculus
Scutus breviculus is a species of large sea snail or limpet with the common name "shield shell" . It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.- Further reading :...

Blainville, 1817

Epitoniidae

Funiscala maxwelli
Funiscala maxwelli
Funiscala maxwelli is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps....
Murdochella alacer
Murdochella alacer
Murdochella alacer is a species of minute wentletrap, a sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Nystiellidae, commonly known as wentletraps, found in New Zealand....

Ranellidae

Ranellidae, common name the triton shells or tritons, is a taxonomic family of small to very large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.-Subfamilies:...

Cymatium parthenopeum
Cymatium parthenopeum
Monoplex parthenopeus, common name the hairy trumpet, also known as Monoplex parthenopeus, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons....
Fusitriton retiolus
Fusitriton retiolus
Fusitriton retiolus is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, the tritons.- Distribution :This species occurs in:* Australia* New Zealand....
Ranella olearium (Linnaeus, 1758)

Hipponicidae

Hipponicidae, common name hoof shells or hoof snails, is a family of small sea snails, limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Vanikoroidea.-Genera:Genera within the family Hipponicidae include:...

Hipponix conicus wyattae
Hipponix conicus wyattae
Hipponix conicus wyattae is a subspecies of small limpet-like marine gastropod mollusc in the family Hipponicidae....

Siphonariidae

Siphonariidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing sea snails, marine and brackish water pulmonate gastropod molluscs. These snails are sometimes known as "false limpets" because of the shape of the shell, but they are not at all closely related to true limpets...

Benhamina obliquata
Benhamina obliquata
Benhamina obliquata is a species of air-breathing sea snail, a false limpet, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae.This species is very large compared with the other species in the family....

Okadidae

Okadaia cinnabareus
Okadaia cinnabareus
Okadaia cinnabareus is a species of minute sea slug, a dorid nudibranch in the gastropod family Okadidae.This species feeds on Spirorbis tube worms. - Further reading :...

Scaphopoda

Gadilidae

Gadilidae is a family of tusk shells in the order Dentaliida.-Genera:* Bathycadulus Scarabino, 1995 * Cadulus Philippi, 1844* Dischides Jeffreys, 1867 * Gadila Gray, 1847* Polyschides Pilsbry & Sharp, 1898...

Cadulus colubridens
Cadulus colubridens
Cadulus colubridens is a tusk shell, or Scaphopoda, in the family Gadilidae of the order Dentaliida, that has been described from only one specimen collected in 1874 by the H.M.S. Challenger expedition. The original description and a drawing was published in 1879 by Robert Boog Watson, a Scottish...
Cadulus delicatulus
Cadulus delicatulus
Cadulus delicatulus is a tusk shell of the family Gadilidae, endemic to New Zealand. It can be found from Northland to Fiordland, including the Chatham Rise and Chatham Islands. It lives at depths of between 35 and 600 m, and in the Milford Sound area between 180 and 200 m....
Cadulus teliger
Cadulus teliger
Cadulus teliger is a tusk shell of the family Gadilidae, endemic to New Zealand waters. It can be found from the Three Kings Islands to the Chatham Islands, at depths of between 15 and 360 m, and lives off the Auckland Islands at depths of approximately 170 m....

Dentaliidae

Dentaliidae is a family of tusk shells in the order Dentaliida.-Genera:* Antalis H. & A. Adams, 1854 * Coccodentalium Sacco, 1896 * Compressidentalium Habe, 1963 * Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758 * Eudentalium Cotton & Godfrey, 1933...

Dentalium diarrhox
Dentalium diarrhox
Dentalium diarrhox is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae, endemic to New Zealand waters. It is found north east of East Cape at about 1,300 m, on the Chatham Rise at about 220 m, and in the Tasman Sea at about 610 m....
Dentalium ecostatum
Dentalium ecostatum
Dentalium ecostatum is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae, endemic to New Zealand waters....
Dentalium glaucarena
Dentalium glaucarena
Dentalium glaucarena is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae.- Distribution :Endemic in waters of New Zealand....
Dentalium nanum
Dentalium nanum
Dentalium nanum is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae, endemic to New Zealand waters....
Dentalium suteri
Dentalium suteri
Dentalium suteri is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae, endemic to New Zealand waters....
Dentalium tiwhana
Dentalium tiwhana
Dentalium tiwhana is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae, endemic to New Zealand waters....
Dentalium zelandicum
Dentalium zelandicum
Dentalium zelandicum is a tusk shell of the family Dentaliidae, endemic to New Zealand waters....

Cephalopoda

Sepiolidae

Sepiolidae is a family of bobtail squid encompassing 15 genera in three or four subfamilies....

Iridoteuthis maoria
Iridoteuthis maoria
Iridoteuthis maoria is a species of bobtail squid native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It occurs in Cook Strait and Chatham Rise off North Island in New Zealand, and has also been recorded from the Nazca and Sala y Gomez submarine ridges in the eastern Pacific.I. maoria has very large eyes and...

Argonautidae

Argonautidae is a family of cephalopods encompassing the modern paper nautiluses of the genus Argonauta along with several extinct genera of shelled octopods....

Argonauta nodosa - Knobby argonaut

Sepiadariidae

Sepiadariidae is a family of cephalopods in the order Sepiida.-Classification:* Genus Sepiadarium** Sepiadarium auritum** Sepiadarium austrinum, Southern Bottletail Squid** Sepiadarium gracilis...

Sepioloidea pacifica Pacific Bobtail Squid

Histioteuthidae

Histioteuthis reversa - Reverse Jewell Squid

Spirulidae

Spirula spirula

Polyplacophora

Gastropoda

Scaphopoda

Cephalopoda

See also

Further reading