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Microvoluta echinata

Microvoluta echinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.

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Microvoluta echinata
Shell of Microvoluta echinata (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutomitridae
Genus: Microvoluta
Species:
M. echinata
Binomial name
Microvoluta echinata
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004

Microvoluta echinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.1

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.7 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia.

References

References

  • Bouchet P. & Kantor Y. 2004. New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae). Systematics and Biodiversity 1(4): 467–502
  • Y. Kantor, 2010, Checklist of Recent Volutomitridae