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Volutomitridae Gray 1854

Volutomitridae

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Volutomitridae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the superfamily Turbinelloidea.

Distribution

The highest diversity of Volutomitridae is found off the coast of New Caledonia.^[1]

Genera

The family Volutomitridae contains six genera and about fifty described recent species:^[1]^[2]

Conomitra Conrad, 1865
Magdalemitra Kilburn, 1974
Microvoluta Angas, 1877
Paradmete Strebel, 1908
Peculator Iredale, 1924
Volutomitra H. Adams and A. Adams, 1853

References

^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P. & Kantor, Y. I. (2003) "New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae)". Systematics and Biodiversity 1(4): 467–502. doi:10.1017/S1477200003001282
^ "Volutomitridae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

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Volutomitridae: Brief Summary

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Volutomitridae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the superfamily Turbinelloidea.

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