Microvoluta superstes

Microvoluta superstes
Shell of Microvoluta superstes (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutomitridae
Genus:	Microvoluta
Species:	M. superstes
Binomial name
Microvoluta superstes Bouchet & Warén, 1985

Microvoluta superstes is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.^[1]

Description[]

The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm.

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Distribution[]

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean on the Josephine seamount off Portugal.

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

External links[]

• Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico. supplement 1: 121-296
• 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