Biology:Microvoluta cythara

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Microvoluta cythara
Microvoluta cythara 001.jpg
Shell of Microvoluta cythara (museum specimens at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutomitridae
Genus: Microvoluta
Species:
M. cythara
Binomial name
Microvoluta cythara
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 9.4 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Coral Sea and off New Caledonia.

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

Wikidata ☰ Q6782193 entry