Afrivoluta | |
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The shell of a specimen of Afrivoluta pringlei trawled off Cape Agulhas, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Volutoidea |
Family: | Marginellonidae |
Genus: | Afrivoluta Tomlin, 1947 |
Type species | |
Afrivoluta pringlei |
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Species within the genus Afrivoluta include:
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