Volutomitridae
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Peculatoridae |
Volutomitridae are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Sorbeoconcha.
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[edit] Distribution
Species in this family are found world-wide, mostly in cold deep water.
[edit] Description
The shells are very similar to that of the Mitridae, but with different dentition, the radula being close to that of the scaphellid volutes, an operculum is present but not in the Mitridae, the columellar plaits number from two to five, and the head of the animal is short and broad with stubby tentacles.
[edit] Genera in the family Volutomitridae
- Microvoluta Angas, 1877
- Peculator Iredale, 1924
- Volutomitra H. Adams and A. Adams, 1853
- Waimatea Finlay, 1873
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[edit] References
- Volutomitridae (TSN 73229). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
