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Alcithoe fissurata

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Alcithoe fissurata
Shell of Alcithoe fissurata crassa (holotype at 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. fissurata
Binomial name
Alcithoe fissurata
Dell, 1963
Synonyms

Pachymelon fissurata Dell, 1963

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

Subspecies
  • Alcithoe fissurata crassa Bail & Limpus, 2005
  • Alcithoe fissurata elegans Bail & Limpus, 2005
  • Alcithoe fissurata fissurata (Dell, 1963)

Description

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The length of the shell attains 260 mm, its diameter 93 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species is endemic to New Zealand occurs off Northland in deep water: 360–870 metres.

References

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  • Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • 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 (4): 770–785. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01756.x.
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