Biology:Microvoluta respergens

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Microvoluta respergens
Microvoluta respergens (MNHN-IM-2000-30289).jpeg
Shell of Microvoluta respergens (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutomitridae
Genus: Microvoluta
Species:
M. respergens
Binomial name
Microvoluta respergens
Bouchet & Kantor, 2004

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 9.3 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs 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 ☰ Q6781465 entry