Voluta garciai
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| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Voluta garciai (Petuch, 1981) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| Falsilyria garciai Petuch, 1981 | |
Voluta garciai is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
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
[edit]This 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