Alcithoe flemingi

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Alcithoe flemingi
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Shell of Alcithoe flemingi (holotype in the Museum of New Zealand)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Alcithoe
Species:
A. flemingi
Binomial name
Alcithoe flemingi
Dell, 1978

Alcithoe flemingi is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1]

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Description

This species attains a size of 105 mm, its diameter 32 mm.

Habitat

This volute is endemic to New Zealand and lives in deep water off the Chatham Rise, off Auckland and the Campbell Islands

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