Volegalea
| Volegalea | |
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| Three views of a shell of Volegalea cochlidium | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Melongenidae |
| Genus: | Volegalea Iredale, 1938 |
| Type species | |
| Volegalea wardiana Iredale, 1938 | |
Volegalea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies. [1]
Species
Species within the genus Volegalea include:
- Volegalea carnaria (Röding, 1798)
- Volegalea cochlidium (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Volegalea dirki (Nolf, 2007)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Volegalea wardiana Iredale, 1938: synonym of Volegalea cochlidium (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Volegalea Iredale, 1938. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567502 on 2015-12-03
- Landau B. & Vermeij G.J. (2013) A new species of Pugilina (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Melongeninae) from the Lower Miocene Cantaure Formation of Venezuela. Basteria 77(4-6): 89-95.
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