| 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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