Afrivoluta
Afrivoluta is a genus of large deepwater sea snails with glossy shells, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellonidae.
| Afrivoluta | |
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| The shell of a specimen of Afrivoluta pringlei trawled off Cape Agulhas, South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Volutoidea |
| Family: | Marginellonidae |
| Genus: | Afrivoluta Tomlin, 1947 |
| Type species | |
| Afrivoluta pringlei | |
References
- Tomlin, John Read le Brockton (1947). "A new South African volutid". Journal of Conchology (print). London: Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 22 (10): 224–246.
Further reading
- Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas:37;pl.18, fig 1
- Lorenz 1993. World Shells 4:49
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