Alcithoe flemingi explained
Alcithoe flemingi is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Description
This species attains a size of 105 mm, its diameter 32 mm.
Habitat
This volute is endemic to New Zealand and lives in deep water off the Chatham Rise, off Auckland and the Campbell Islands
References
- Dell . R.K. . Additions to the New Zealand Recent molluscan fauna with notes on Pachymelon (Palomelon) . National Museum of New Zealand Records . 1978 . 1 . 11 . 161–176.
- Book: Bail, P. & Limpus, A. . A Conchological iconography: the Recent volutes of New Zealand . 2005 . Conchbooks . 1–73.
- Book: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. . 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 . 2009 . Canterbury University Press . Christchurch.
- Hills S.F.K., Trewick S.A. & Morgan-Richards M . Phylogenetic information of genes, illustrated with mitochondrial data from a genus of gastropod molluscs . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2011 . 104 . 770–785.
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