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Voluta garciai is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
Voluta garciai | |
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Shell of Voluta garciai (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutidae |
Subfamily: | Volutinae |
Genus: | Voluta |
Species: | V. garciai
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Binomial name | |
Voluta garciai (Petuch, 1981)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Falsilyria garciai Petuch, 1981 |
Description
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The length of the shell attains 71 mm, its diameter 34 mm. The shell's color is a light brown with black areas
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Gorda Bank to Trujillo Bay, Honduras.
References
edit- ^ a b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Voluta garciai (Petuch, 1981)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
Further reading
edit- Petuch E.J. (1981). A volutid species radiation from northern Honduras, with notes on the Honduran Caloosahatchian Secondary Relict Pocket. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 94(4): 1110-1130
- Berschauer D.P. (2019). A review of the Voluta polypleura - demarcoi complex. The Festivus. 51(3): 184-197