Volutomitra
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Volutomitra is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s, marine
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 gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae
Volutomitridae
Volutomitridae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Muricoidea.-Genera:The family Volutomitridae contains six genera and about fifty described recent species:* Conomitra Conrad, 1865* Magdalemitra Kilburn, 1974...

, the mitres, with global distribution.

Species

Species in the genus Volutomitra include:
  • Volutomitra banksi
    Volutomitra banksi
    Volutomitra banksi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.- Further reading :* Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

    (Dell
    Richard Dell
    Dr Richard Kenneth Dell was a New Zealand malacologist. He was born in Auckland. As a young boy, he took an interest in shells, collecting them from the shores of Waitemata Harbour. He even managed to start a "museum" in his backyard...

    , 1951)
  • Volutomitra bairdii
    Volutomitra bairdii
    Volutomitra bairdii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    (Dall, 1889)
  • Volutomitra banksi
    Volutomitra banksi
    Volutomitra banksi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres.- Further reading :* Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...

    (Dell, 1951)
  • Volutomitra bayeri
    Volutomitra bayeri
    Volutomitra bayeri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    Okutani, 1982
  • Volutomitra erebus
    Volutomitra erebus
    Volutomitra erebus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    Bayer, 1971 - Erebus mitre-volute
  • Volutomitra glabella
    Volutomitra glabella
    Volutomitra glabella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    Bouchet & Kantor, 2000
  • Volutomitra groenlandica
    Volutomitra groenlandica
    Volutomitra groenlandica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    (Moller, 1842) - false Greenland mitre
  • Volutomitra obscura
    Volutomitra obscura
    Volutomitra obscura is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    (Hutton, 1873)
  • Volutomitra pailoloana
    Volutomitra pailoloana
    Volutomitra pailoloana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    (J. Cate, 1963)
  • Volutomitra persephone
    Volutomitra persephone
    Volutomitra persephone is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    Bayer, 1971
  • Volutomitra porcellana (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
  • Volutomitra tenella
    Volutomitra tenella
    Volutomitra tenella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    Golikov & Sirenko, 1998
  • Volutomitra vaubani
    Volutomitra vaubani
    Volutomitra vaubani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    Cernohorsky, 1982
  • Volutomitra ziczac
    Volutomitra ziczac
    Volutomitra ziczac is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae....

    Bouchet & Kantor, 2004

Species brought into synonymy :
  • Volutomitra alaskana Dall
    W. H. Dall
    William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...

    , 1902
    : synonym of Volutomitra groenlandica (Beck in Möller, 1842)
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