Voluta hamiltonensis

Voluta hamiltonensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Voluta hamiltonensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Volutinae
Genus: Voluta
Species:
V. hamiltonensis
Binomial name
Voluta hamiltonensis
Pritchard, 1898

Description

Specimens of the species have a fusiform shell, axial sculpture, and non-extended outer lip, with flattened whorls on its spire.[2] A smooth, relatively spherical protoconch is seen at the end of the spire.[3]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Tertiary strata in Victoria, Australia.

References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Voluta hamiltonensis Pritchard, 1898 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1652576 on 2023-06-29
  2. Thomson, Kirstie Rae. (September 2013). Evolutionary patterns and consequences of developmental mode in Cenozoic gastropods from southeastern Australia [doctoral dissertation, University of Liverpool].
  3. Darragh, T. A. (30 November 1988). "Tertiary Volutidae of South-Eastern Australia". Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria. 49 (2): 248.
  • G.B. Pritchard | J.H. Gatliff, Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria; Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1898 part II


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