Microvoluta
| Microvoluta Temporal range: Lower Pliocene to Recent
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| Microvoluta cythara shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Volutomitridae |
| Genus: | Microvoluta Angas, 1877 |
| Type species | |
| Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Vexillitra Marwick, 1931 | |
Microvoluta is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae.[1]
Species
[edit]Species in the genus Microvoluta include:[2]
- 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
References
[edit]- ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Microvoluta Angas, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138661 on 2016-11-15
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Microvoluta Angas, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138661 on 2015-09-19
- Marwick, J. (1931). The Tertiary Mollusca of the Gisborne District. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 13:1-177. 18: pls.
Further reading
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- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- SeaShells of NSW