Peculator (gastropod)

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Peculator
Temporal range: Lower Miocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked):clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutomitridae
Genus:Peculator
Iredale, 1924
Type species
Peculator verconisIredale, 1924
Species

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Peculator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae, one family of mitres. [1]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Sea snail common name for snails that normally live in saltwater

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.

Volutomitridae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the superfamily Turbinelloidea.

Species

Species within the genus Peculator include:

Peculator baccatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.

Peculator hedleyi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.

Peculator obconicus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.

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Peculator porphyria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.

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Peculator verconis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.

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References

  1. WoRMS (2013). Peculator Iredale, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=449937 on 2014-03-02

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