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Microvoluta
Sign in to saveMicrovoluta is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyVolutomitridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 36
- With media
- 15
- Family
- Volutomitridae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NMV, AM, MNHN, UF
- Recorded in
- Australia, New Caledonia, Nouvelle-Caledonie, United States, Salomon Sea, Madagascar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea
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- Parent taxon
- Volutomitridae
- Image
- Microvoluta cythara 001.jpg
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Microvoluta is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae.
==Species== Species in the genus Microvoluta include: Microvoluta amphissa Bouchet & Kantor, 2004 Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877 † Microvoluta balteata (Marwick, 1931) Microvoluta blakeana (Dall, 1889) Microvoluta corona Simone & Cunha, 2012 Microvoluta cryptomitra Bouchet & Kantor, 2004 Microvoluta cythara Bouchet & Kantor, 2004 Microvoluta dolichura Bouchet & Kantor, 2004 Microvoluta echinata Bouchet & Kantor, 2004 Microvoluta engonia Bouchet & Kantor, 2004 † Microvoluta fracta (Marwick, 1926) Microvoluta garrardi Cernohorsky, 1975 Microvoluta hondana (Yokoyama, 1922) Microvoluta intermedia (Dall, 1889) Microvoluta joloensis Cernohorsky, 1970 Microvoluta marginata (Hutton, 1885) † Microvoluta marwicki (Vella, 1954) Microvoluta miranda (E. A. Smith, 1891) Microvoluta mitrella Bouchet & Kantor, 2004 † Microvoluta nodulata P. A. Maxwell, 1988 † Microvoluta pentaploca Finlay, 1927 Microvoluta respergens Bouchet & Kantor, 2004 Microvoluta royana Iredale, 1924 Microvoluta stadialis (Hedley, 1911) Microvoluta superstes Bouchet & Warén, 1985 Microvoluta teretiuscula (Thiele, 1925) Microvoluta veldhoveni deJong and Coomans, 1988 † Microvoluta vetusta Laws, 1936 † Microvoluta wainuioruensis (Vella, 1954) Species brought into synonymy: Microvoluta cuvierensis Finlay, 1930 synonym of Microvoluta marginata (Hutton, 1885) Microvoluta euzonata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1900): synonym of Austromitra euzonata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1900) Microvoluta obconica Powell, 1952 synonym of Peculator obconicus (Powell, 1952) Microvoluta ponderi Cernohorsky, 1975 synonym of Microvoluta miranda (E. A. Smith, 1891) Microvoluta purpureostoma Hedley & May, 1908 synonym of Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877
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