''Naviculavolva'' 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
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 ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the subfamily
Simniinae
Simniinae is a subfamily of molluscs in the Ovulidae family of gastropods.
Genera
Depending on authority, it contains between 7 and 12 genera (see genus list at Ovulidae#2007 taxonomy, Ovulidae).
* ''Contrasimnia'' Lorenz & Fehse, 2009
* ''Cymbo ...
of the
family Ovulidae
Ovulidae, common names the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries, is a family (biology), family of small to large predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and the co ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Naviculavolva'' include:
* ''
Naviculavolva debelius''
Lorenz & Fehse, 2011
* ''
Naviculavolva deflexa''
( G.B. Sowerby II, 1848)
* ''
Naviculavolva elegans''
Fehse, 2009
* ''
Naviculavolva kurziana''
(Cate, 1976)
* ''
Naviculavolva malaita''
(Cate, 1976)
* ''
Naviculavolva massierorum''
(Fehse, 1999)
References
* Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.
* Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D., (2011) Three new species of Ovulidae from the Red Sea (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Conchylia 41(2): 10-23
* Dolin L. & Dockery III D.T. (2018). The Cypraeidae and Ovulidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda) from the Cook Mountain Formation (Bartonian, Middle Eocene) of the Gulf coastal plain, southern United States: A province of unsuspected generic origins. Southeastern Geology. 53(1): 41-61.
Ovulidae
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