Afrivoluta

Afrivoluta is a genus of large deepwater sea snails with glossy shells, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellonidae.

Afrivoluta
The shell of a specimen of Afrivoluta pringlei
trawled off Cape Agulhas, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Volutoidea
Family: Marginellonidae
Genus: Afrivoluta
Tomlin, 1947
Type species
Afrivoluta pringlei
Tomlin, 1947[1]

Species

Species within the genus Afrivoluta include:

References
  1. 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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