Microvoluta
Microvoluta is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae.[1]
| Microvoluta Temporal range: Lower Pliocene to Recent | |
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| Microvoluta cythara shell | |
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| Genus: | Microvoluta Angas, 1877 |
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| Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877 | |
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Vexillitra Marwick, 1931 | |
Species
Species in the genus Microvoluta include:[2]
- Microvoluta amphissa Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
- Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877
- † Microvoluta balteata (Marwick, 1931)
- Microvoluta blakeana (Dall, 1889)
- Microvoluta corona
- Microvoluta cryptomitra
- Microvoluta cythara
- Microvoluta dolichura
- Microvoluta echinata
- Microvoluta engonia
- Microvoluta fracta
- Microvoluta garrardi
- Microvoluta hondana
- Microvoluta intermedia (Dall, 1889)
- Microvoluta joloensis
- Microvoluta marginata (Hutton, 1885)
- Microvoluta marwicki
- Microvoluta miranda (E. A. Smith, 1891)
- Microvoluta mitrella
- Microvoluta nodulata
- Microvoluta respergens
- Microvoluta royana Iredale, 1924
- Microvoluta stadialis
- Microvoluta superstes
- Microvoluta teretiuscula (Thiele, 1925)
- Microvoluta veldhoveni deJong and Coomans, 1988
- Microvoluta vetusta
- Microvoluta wainuioruensis
- Species brought into synonymy
- Microvoluta cuvierensis Finlay, 1930 synonym of Microvoluta marginata (Hutton, 1885)
- 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
- 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
- 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
Further reading
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- SeaShells of NSW
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