Alcithoe flemingi
| Alcithoe flemingi | |
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| Shell of Alcithoe flemingi (holotype in the Museum of New Zealand) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Alcithoe |
| Species: | A. flemingi |
| Binomial name | |
| Alcithoe flemingi Dell, 1978 | |
Alcithoe flemingi is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
Description
[edit]This species attains a size of 105 mm, its diameter 32 mm.
Habitat
[edit]This volute is endemic to New Zealand and lives in deep water off the Chatham Rise, off Auckland and the Campbell Islands.
References
[edit]- ↑ Alcithoe flemingiDell, 1978. 23 July 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Dell, R.K. (1978). "Additions to the New Zealand Recent molluscan fauna with notes on Pachymelon (Palomelon)". National Museum of New Zealand Records. 1 (11): 161–176.
- Bail, P. & Limpus, A. (2005). A Conchological iconography: the Recent volutes of New Zealand. Conchbooks. pp. 1–73.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Hills S.F.K., Trewick S.A. & Morgan-Richards M (2011). "Phylogenetic information of genes, illustrated with mitochondrial data from a genus of gastropod molluscs". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104: 770–785.
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