Volutomitra groenlandica

Volutomitra groenlandica
Shell of Volutomitra groenlandica (speciem nat the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Turbinelloidea
Family:	Volutomitridae
Genus:	Volutomitra
Species:	V. groenlandica
Binomial name
Volutomitra groenlandica (Beck in Möller, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
Mitra groenlandica Beck in Möller, 1842 Volutomitra alaskana Dall, 1902 (junior synonym)

Volutomitra groenlandica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 44 mm.

(Original description as Volutomitra alaskana) The shell is fusiform, with about six moderately convex whorls. The suture is distinct. The surface is wholly minutely spirally striated, covered with an olivaceous periostracum over a white or yellowish shell. The aperture is longer than half the total length, with a rather wide siphonal canal, a callous columella and body in the adult, and simple outer lip. The siphonal canal has a well marked siphonal fasciole, and is slightly flexuous. There are normally four plaits, rarely three or five, strong and rather distant. The protoconch is almost always eroded. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada: Devon Island, Nova Scotia; Iceland to Novaya Zemlya, Russia.

References

1. Volutomitra groenlandica (Beck in Möller, 1842). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
2. Dall, W. H. (1902). A new species of Volutomitra. The Nautilus. 15(9): 102-103

• Bouchet P.; Kantor Y. (2004). New Caledonia: the major centre of biodiversity for volutomitrid molluscs (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Volutomitridae). Systematics and Biodiversity. 1(4): 467-502.

External links

• Möller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. 4: 76-97
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213