Alcithoe flemingi is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
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| Shell of Alcithoe flemingi (holotype in the Museum of New Zealand) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Alcithoe |
| Species: | A. flemingi
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| Binomial name | |
| Alcithoe flemingi Dell, 1978
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Description
editThis species attains a size of 105 mm, its diameter 32 mm.
Habitat
editThis volute is endemic to New Zealand and lives in deep water off the Chatham Rise, off Auckland and the Campbell Islands
References
edit- ^ Alcithoe flemingiDell, 1978. 23 July 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Dell, R.K. (1978). "Additions to the New Zealand Recent molluscan fauna with notes on Pachymelon (Palomelon)". National Museum of New Zealand Records. 1 (11): 161–176.
- Bail, P. & Limpus, A. (2005). A Conchological iconography: the Recent volutes of New Zealand. Conchbooks. pp. 1–73.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Hills S.F.K., Trewick S.A. & Morgan-Richards M (2011). "Phylogenetic information of genes, illustrated with mitochondrial data from a genus of gastropod molluscs". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104: 770–785.
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