Volutomitridae is a
family
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of
sea snail
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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
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s, in the superfamily
Turbinelloidea.
Distribution
The highest diversity of Volutomitridae is found off the coast of
New Caledonia
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.
Genera
The family Volutomitridae contains six genera and about fifty described recent species:
[Bouchet, P. & Kantor, Y. I. (2003) "New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae)". '']Systematics and Biodiversity
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'' 1(4): 467–502.
* ''
Conomitra''
Conrad, 1865
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Magdalemitra''
Kilburn, 1974
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Microvoluta''
Angas, 1877
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Paradmete''
Strebel, 1908
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Peculator''
Iredale, 1924
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Volutomitra''
H. Adams and A. Adams
Arthur Adams (1820 in Gosport, Hampshire – 1878) was an England, English physician and natural history, naturalist.
Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board HMS Samarang (1822), HMS ''Samarang'' during the survey of the islands of ...
, 1853
References
Further reading
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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