Athleta Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent | |
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Athleta ficulina , a fossil species from Miocene | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Volutoidea |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Athleta Conrad, 1853 [1] |
Type species | |
† Voluta rarispinaLamarck, 1811 | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Athleta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae. [2]
Species within the genus Athleta include:
subgenus Athleta Conrad, 1853
subgenus Ternivoluta Martens, 1897 [17]
This article is missing information about Parentheses in this section "Fossil species" may be missing or incorrect..(January 2018) |
subgenus Athleta Conrad, 1853 [18]
subgenus † Neoathleta Bellardi, 1890 [18]
subgenus Volutocorbis Dall, 1890 [18]
Sometimes the following species used to be recognized in the separate genus:
subgenus † Volutopupa Dall, 1890 [18]
subgenus Volutospina Newton, 1906 [18]
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