Alcithoe benthicola explained
Alcithoe benthicola is a species of very large deepwater sea snail, a marine prosobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Description
This species attains a size of 260 mm, its diameter 145 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand occurs off Northland in deep water: 400–800 metres.
References
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
- Book: Bail, P. & Limpus, A. . A Conchological iconography: the Recent volutes of New Zealand . 2005 . Conchbooks . 1–73.
- Book: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. . Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia . 2009 . Canterbury University Press . Christchurch.
- Hills S.F.K., Trewick S.A. & Morgan-Richards M . Phylogenetic information of genes, illustrated with mitochondrial data from a genus of gastropod molluscs . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2011 . 104 . 4 . 770–785. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01756.x .
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