| Peculator Temporal range: | |
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| Peculator hedleyi, a member of the genus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutomitridae |
| Genus: | Peculator Iredale, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| Peculator verconisIredale, 1924 | |
| Species | |
10 extant species (see text) | |
Peculator is a genus of sea snails in the family Volutomitridae, [2] [3] [1] one family of mitres.
They are known from waters of New Zealand, Australia, and the Malay Archipelago. [3]
There are ten recognized extant species within the genus Peculator: [2]
Species only known from the fossil record include the following: [4]