Volutomitridae

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Volutomitridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutomitridae
Gray, 1854
Genera

See text.

Synonyms
  • Microvolutidae Iredale & McMichael, 1962 (n.a.)
  • Peculatoridae Iredale & McMichael, 1962 (n.a.)

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

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]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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
  2. "Volutomitridae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 

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