Alcithoe larochei ostenfeldi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Alcithoe |
Species: | A. ostenfeldi |
Subspecies: | Alcithoe larochei ostenfeldi |
Trinomial name | |
Alcithoe larochei ostenfeldi (Iredale, 1937) | |
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Alcithoe larochei ostenfeldi is a subspecies of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1]
In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species' global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics. A subspecies cannot be recognized independently. A species is either recognized as having no subspecies at all or at least two, including any that are extinct. The term is abbreviated subsp. in botany and bacteriology, or ssp. in zoology. The plural is the same as the singular: subspecies.
Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in salt water, in other words marine gastropods. The taxonomic class Gastropoda also includes snails that live in other habitats, such as land snails and freshwater snails. Many species of sea snails are edible and exploited as food sources by humans.
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The height of this shell attains 170mm, its width 73mm.
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This marine subspecies is endemic to New Zealand.
Volutidae, common name volutes, are a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails that range in size from 9 mm to over 500 mm, marine gastropod mollusks. Most of the species have no operculum.
Alcithoe is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
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Alcithoe lutea is a species of large deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
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Splendrillia larochei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.
Amoria molleri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Amoria hunteri, common name Hunter's marbled volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
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Arthur William Baden Powell was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the 20th century. He was known to his friends and family by his third name, "Baden".
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