Peculator porphyria

Peculator porphyria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutomitridae
Genus:	Peculator
Species:	P. porphyria
Binomial name
Peculator porphyria Verco, 1896
Synonyms
Imbricaria porphyria Verco, 1896 Marginella coma Odhner, 1924

Peculator porphyria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.

References

• Bouchet P. & Kantor Y. 2004. New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae). Systematics and Biodiversity 1(4): 467-502.

Further reading

• Powell, Arthur W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land, and Freshwater Shells. Auckland: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-216906-1. OCLC 6786656.