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Volutoconus
Sign in to saveVolutoconus is a small taxonomic genus of four rare species of sea snails, medium-sized predatory marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.
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Vinony files it under Gastropod genera and Volutidae.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyVolutidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Volutidae
- Collections
- WAM, SAMA, USNM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States, Australie
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Distribution
- Shell description
- Notes
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Volutoconus is a small taxonomic genus of four rare species of sea snails, medium-sized predatory marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.
==Distribution== Volutoconus species live in tropical and subtropical waters. All four species in the genus live in Australia, and the range of one species, Volutoconus bednalli, extends to Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Volutoconus snails live in coarse sand and rubble from the shallow subtidal zone to over 200 m depth.
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