| Alcithoe benthicola | |
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| Shell of Alcithoe benthicola (specimen at the Museum of New Zealand) | |
|  Scientific classification   | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Gastropoda | 
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda | 
| Order: | Neogastropoda | 
| Family: | Volutidae | 
| Genus: | Alcithoe | 
| Species: | A. benthicola  | 
| Binomial name | |
| Alcithoe benthicola (Dell, 1963)  | |
| Synonyms | |
Pachymelon benthicola Dell, 1963  | |
Alcithoe benthicola is a species of very large deepwater sea snail, a marine prosobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1]
This species attains a size of 260 mm, its diameter 145 mm.
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This marine species is endemic to New Zealand occurs off Northland in deep water: 400-800 metres.
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