Phenacovolva zuidafrikaana

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Phenacovolva zuidafrikaana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Ovulidae
Subfamily: Ovulinae
Genus: Phenacovolva
Species: P. zuidafrikaana
Binomial name
Phenacovolva zuidafrikaana
(Cate, 1975)
Synonyms[1]
  • Amphiperas smithi Bartsch, 1915
  • Amphiperas smithi G.B. Sowerby III, 1894

Phenacovolva zuidafrikaana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.[1]

Description

Distribution

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Phenacovolva zuidafrikaana (Cate, 1975). WoRMS (2009). Phenacovolva zuidafrikaana (Cate, 1975). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431226 on 5 June 2010.
  • Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.
  • Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218

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