Ternivoluta
| Ternivoluta | |
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| Shell of Ternivoluta studeri | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Ternivoluta E. von Martens, 1897 |
| Type species | |
| Voluta studeri E. von Martens, 1897 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ternivoluta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Athletinae of the family Volutidae.[1]
General characteristics
[edit](Original description in German) The shell is smooth and glossy, featuring a blunt shoulder edge and a moderately protruding spire. Its initial whorl is smooth, spherical, and not very large. There are four rather strong and very oblique columellar folds. The radula possesses three well-developed tooth plates in each row.[2]
Species
[edit]- † Ternivoluta anticingulata (F. McCoy, 1866)
- † Ternivoluta antiscalaris (F. McCoy, 1866)
- † Ternivoluta antispinosa (Tate, 1899)
- † Ternivoluta bungae (Darragh, 1971)
- † Ternivoluta craticulata (Darragh, 1971)
- † Ternivoluta curvicostata (Darragh, 1971)
- Ternivoluta insperata (Darragh, 1979)
- † Ternivoluta levior (F. McCoy, 1866)
- Ternivoluta pisororum (H. Morrison, 2006)
- Ternivoluta studeri (E. von Martens, 1897)
- † Ternivoluta subcrenulifera (Darragh, 1971)
References
[edit]- 1 2 Ternivoluta E. von Martens, 1897. 18 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Martens, E. von (1897). "Conchologische Miscellen II". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 63 (1): 177. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
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External links
[edit]- Cotton, B.C. (1949). "Australian Recent and Tertairy Mollusca, Family Volutidae". Records of the South Australian Museum. 9: 185. Retrieved 18 November 2025.