Microvoluta cythara

Microvoluta cythara
Shell of Microvoluta cythara (museum specimens at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutomitridae
Genus:	Microvoluta
Species:	M. cythara
Binomial name
Microvoluta cythara Bouchet & Kantor, 2004

Microvoluta cythara is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.

Description

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The length of the shell attains 9.4 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Coral Sea and off New Caledonia.

References

• 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
• Y. Kantor, 2010, Checklist of Recent Volutomitridae