''Peculator'' 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 ...
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, one family of mitres.
[WoRMS (2013). Peculator Iredale, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=449937 on 2014-03-02]
Species
Species within the genus ''Peculator'' include:
* ''
Peculator baccatus''
Cernohorsky, 1980
* ''
Peculator hedleyi''
(Murdoch, 1905)
* ''
Peculator obconicus''
( Powell, 1952)
* ''
Peculator porphyria''
(Verco, 1896)
* ''
Peculator verconis''
Iredale, 1924
References
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
* Y. Kantor, 2010, Checklist of Recent Volutomitridae
GBIF
Volutomitridae
Extant Miocene first appearances
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