''Microvoluta'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of very small
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the family
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 contains ...
.
[Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Microvoluta Angas, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138661 on 2016-11-15]
Species
Species in the genus ''Microvoluta'' include:
[Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Microvoluta Angas, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138661 on 2015-09-19]
* ''
Microvoluta amphissa''
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
* ''
Microvoluta australis''
Angas, 1877
* † ''
Microvoluta balteata''
(Marwick, 1931)
* ''
Microvoluta blakeana''
( Dall, 1889)
* ''
Microvoluta corona''
Simone & Cunha, 2012
* ''
Microvoluta cryptomitra''
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
* ''
Microvoluta cythara''
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
* ''
Microvoluta dolichura''
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
* ''
Microvoluta echinata''
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
* ''
Microvoluta engonia''
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
* † ''
Microvoluta fracta'' (Marwick, 1926)
* ''
Microvoluta garrardi''
Cernohorsky, 1975
* ''
Microvoluta hondana''
(Yokoyama, 1922)
* ''
Microvoluta intermedia''
( Dall, 1889)
* ''
Microvoluta joloensis''
Cernohorsky, 1970
* ''
Microvoluta marginata''
(Hutton Hutton may refer to:
Places
;Antarctica
* Hutton Cliffs, Ross Island
* Hutton Mountains
;Australia
* Hutton Sandstone Formation
;Canada
* Hutton, Alberta, a locality
* Hutton, British Columbia, a railway point
* Hutton railway station, Brit ...
, 1885)
* † ''
Microvoluta marwicki''
(Vella, 1954)
* ''
Microvoluta miranda''
( E. A. Smith, 1891)
* ''
Microvoluta mitrella''
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
* † ''
Microvoluta nodulata''
P. A. Maxwell, 1988
* † ''
Microvoluta pentaploca''
Finlay, 1927
* ''
Microvoluta respergens''
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
* ''
Microvoluta royana''
Iredale, 1924
* ''
Microvoluta stadialis''
(Hedley, 1911)
* ''
Microvoluta superstes''
Bouchet & Warén, 1985
* ''
Microvoluta teretiuscula''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Microvoluta veldhoveni''
deJong and Coomans, 1988
* † ''
Microvoluta vetusta''
Laws, 1936
* † ''
Microvoluta wainuioruensis''
(Vella, 1954)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Microvoluta cuvierensis''
Finlay, 1930 synonym of ''Microvoluta marginata''
(Hutton, 1885)
* ''Microvoluta euzonata''
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1900): synonym of ''
Austromitra euzonata''
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1900)
* ''Microvoluta obconica''
Powell, 1952 synonym of ''
Peculator obconicus''
(Powell, 1952)
* ''Microvoluta ponderi''
Cernohorsky, 1975 synonym of ''Microvoluta miranda''
(E. A. Smith, 1891)
* ''Microvoluta purpureostoma''
Hedley & May, 1908 synonym of ''Microvoluta australis''
Angas, 1877
References
* Marwick, J. (1931). The Tertiary Mollusca of the Gisborne District. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 13:1-177. 18: pls.
Further reading
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
SeaShells of NSW
Volutomitridae
Extant Zanclean first appearances
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