Volutomitra
| Volutomitra Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous to Recent | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Volutomitridae |
| Genus: | Volutomitra H. & A. Adams, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Volutomitra groenlandica groenlandica Beck, H.H. in Möller, H.P.C., 1842 | |
| Species | |
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Volutomitra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres, with global distribution.[1]
Species
Species in the genus Volutomitra include:[2]
- Volutomitra banksi (Dell, 1951)
- Volutomitra bairdii (Dall, 1889)
- Volutomitra banksi (Dell, 1951)
- Volutomitra bayeri Okutani, 1982
- Volutomitra erebus Bayer, 1971 - Erebus mitre-volute
- Volutomitra glabella Bouchet & Kantor, 2000
- Volutomitra groenlandica (Moller, 1842) - false Greenland mitre
- Volutomitra obscura (Hutton, 1873)
- Volutomitra pailoloana (J. Cate, 1963)
- Volutomitra persephone Bayer, 1971
- Volutomitra porcellana (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
- Volutomitra tenella Golikov & Sirenko, 1998
- Volutomitra vaubani Cernohorsky, 1982
- Volutomitra ziczac Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
- Species brought into synonymy
- Volutomitra alaskana Dall, 1902 : synonym of Volutomitra groenlandica (Beck in Möller, 1842)
References
- 1 2 WoRMS (2010). Volutomitra H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138662 on 2010-12-14
- ↑ "Volutomitra". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- 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
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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