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Alcithoe flemingi

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Alcithoe flemingi
Shell of Alcithoe flemingi (holotype in the Museum of New Zealand)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Alcithoe
Species:
A. flemingi
Binomial name
Alcithoe flemingi
Dell, 1978

Alcithoe flemingi is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1]

Description

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This species attains a size of 105 mm, its diameter 32 mm.

Habitat

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This volute is endemic to New Zealand and lives in deep water off the Chatham Rise, off Auckland and the Campbell Islands

References

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  • Dell, R.K. (1978). "Additions to the New Zealand Recent molluscan fauna with notes on Pachymelon (Palomelon)". National Museum of New Zealand, Records. 1 (11): 161–176.
  • Bail, P. & Limpus, A. (2005). A Conchological iconography: the Recent volutes of New Zealand. Conchbooks. pp. 1–73.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Hills S.F.K., Trewick S.A. & Morgan-Richards M (2011). "Phylogenetic information of genes, illustrated with mitochondrial data from a genus of gastropod molluscs". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104: 770–785.
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  1. ^ Alcithoe flemingiDell, 1978. 23 July 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.