Microvoluta

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Microvoluta
Temporal range: Lower Pliocene to Recent
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Microvoluta cythara shell
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Turbinelloidea
Family: Volutomitridae
Genus: Microvoluta
Angas, 1877
Type species
Microvoluta australisAngas, 1877
Synonyms

VexillitraMarwick, 1931

Microvoluta is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae. [1]

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Species

Species in the genus Microvoluta include: [2]

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Microvoluta Angas, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138661 on 2016-11-15
  2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Microvoluta Angas, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138661 on 2015-09-19

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