List of marine molluscs of New Zealand

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Diversity of marine mollusc shells at Akaroa Beach, New Zealand

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

Marine molluscs include marine gastropods (sea snails and sea slugs), bivalves (such as pipis, cockles, oysters, mussels, scallops), octopuses, squid and other classes of Mollusca. This list does not include the land and freshwater species.

Aplacophora[]

  • Proneomenia quincarinata

Polyplacophora[]

Acanthochitonidae

Mopaliidae

Callochitonidae

Chitonidae

Callochitonidae

Ischnochitonidae

Leptochitonidae

Loricidae

  • Lorica haurakiensis

Gastropoda[]

Nacellidae

Fissurellidae (keyhole limpets and slit limpets)

Haliotidae

Calliostomatidae

Trochidae (top snails)

Turbinidae

Neritidae

Batillariidae

Turritellidae

Littorinidae (periwinkles)

Rissoidae

Struthiolariidae

Ranellidae

Hipponicidae (hoof snails)

Buccinidae (whelks)

Muricidae

Volutidae

Olividae

Epitoniidae (wentletraps)

Janthinidae

Okadaiidae

Facelinidae

Bullidae

Siphonariidae

Amphibolidae

Onchidiidae

Bivalvia[]

Mesodesmatidae

Tellinidae

Veneridae

Ostreidae

Pectinidae

Mytilidae

Pinnidae

Scaphopoda[]

Gadilidae

Dentaliidae

Cephalopoda[]

Spirulidae

  • Spirula spirula – ram's horn squid

Sepiadariidae

Sepiolidae

  • Iridoteuthis maoria

Cranchiidae

Histioteuthidae

Octopodidae

Argonautidae

See also[]

References[]

Further reading[]

  • Frederick Hutton. 1873. Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species.
  • Frederick Wollaston Hutton 1880. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. A systematic and descriptive catalogue of the marine and land shells, and of the soft mollusks and Polyzoa of New Zealand and the adjacent islands.
  • Henry Suter. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca Wellington.
  • Powell A. W. B. 1979. New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.

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