| Volutomitridae | |
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| Volutomitra ziczac | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Volutomitridae Gray, 1854 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Volutomitridae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the superfamily Turbinelloidea.
The highest diversity of Volutomitridae is found off the coast of New Caledonia. [1]
The family Volutomitridae contains six genera and about fifty described recent species: [1] [2]
The biodiversity of New Caledonia is of exceptional biological and paleoecological interest. It is frequently referred to as a biodiversity hotspot. The country is a large South Pacific archipelago with a total land area of more than 18,000 square kilometres (6,900 sq mi). The terrain includes a variety of reefs, atolls, small islands, and a variety of topographical and edaphic regions on the largest island, all of which promote the development of unusually concentrated biodiversity. The region's climate is oceanic and tropical.
Helicinidae is a family of small tropical land snails which have an operculum. They are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicinoidea.
Siphonodentalium colubridens is a tusk shell or scaphopod in the family Gadilidae of the order Dentaliida.
Volutomitra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres, with global distribution.
Volutomitra banksi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.
Peculator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae, one family of mitres.
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.
Peculator porphyria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.
Microvoluta is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae.
Microvoluta marginata is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.
The biogeography of gastropods is the study of the distribution of the biodiversity of gastropods over space and time.
Microvoluta cythara is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.
Peculator verconis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.
Volutomitra obscura is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.
Conomitra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutomitridae.
Metula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Otopleura mitralis, common name the miter pyram, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Micrelenchus tessellatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Turbinelloidea is a superfamily of sea snails in the order Neogastropoda. It comprises the following families: