Afrivoluta

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Afrivoluta
AfrivolutaPringlei.jpg
The shell of a specimen of Afrivoluta pringlei
trawled off Cape Agulhas, South Africa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Volutoidea
Family: Marginellonidae
Genus: Afrivoluta
Tomlin, 1947
Type species
Afrivoluta pringlei
Tomlin, 1947 [1]

Afrivoluta is a genus of large deepwater sea snails with glossy shells, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellonidae.

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Species

Species within the genus Afrivoluta include:

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References

  1. 1 2 Tomlin, John Read le Brockton (1947). "A new South African volutid". Journal of Conchology (print). London: Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 22 (10): 224–246.

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