''Microvoluta cythara'' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

in the

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Volutomitridae Volutomitridae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the superfamily Turbinelloidea. Distribution The highest diversity of Volutomitridae is found off the coast of New Caledonia. Genera The family Volutomitridae contai ...

Description

The length of the shell attains 9.4 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the

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and off New Caledonia.

References

* Bouchet P. & Kantor Y. 2004. ''New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae).'' Systematics and Biodiversity 1(4): 467–502 * Y. Kantor, 2010, Checklist of Recent Volutomitridae Volutomitridae Gastropods described in 2004 {{Volutomitridae-stub