Afrivoluta
| 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 |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda cladeHypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Marginellidae |
| Subfamily: | Marginelloninae |
| Genus: | Afrivoluta Tomlin, 1947 |
Afrivoluta is a genus of large deepwater sea snails with glossy shells, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellidae, the marginellids.
Species
Species within the genus Afrivoluta include:
References
Further reading
- Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas:37;pl.18, fig 1
- Lorenz 1993. World Shells 4:49
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