Alcithoe fusus
Appearance
Alcithoe fusus | |
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Shell of Alcithoe fusus (neotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Volutoidea |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Alcithoe |
Species: | A. fusus
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Binomial name | |
Alcithoe fusus | |
Synonyms | |
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Alcithoe fusus is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Zealand
References
- Dell, R. K. (1956). Some new off-shore Mollusca from New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum. 3(1): 27-59.
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8
- Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
- 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
External links
- Quoy, J. R. C. & Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie
- Swainson, W. J. (1824). The characters of several new shells, belonging to the Linnean Volutæ, with a few observations on the present state of conchology. Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts. 17(33): 28-38
- Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp.
- Murdoch, R.; Suter, H. (1906). Results of dredging on the continental shelf of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 38: 278-305