Microvoluta respergens is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.[1]
Microvoluta respergens | |
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Shell of Microvoluta respergens (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutomitridae |
Genus: | Microvoluta |
Species: | M. respergens
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Binomial name | |
Microvoluta respergens Bouchet & Kantor, 2004
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 9.3 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off New Caledonia.
References
edit- ^ Microvoluta respergens Bouchet & Kantor, 2004. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- Bouchet P. & Kantor Y. 2004. New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae). Systematics and Biodiversity 1(4): 467–502.
- Y. Kantor, 2010, Checklist of Recent Volutomitridae (