Misplaced Pages

Volutomitra erebus
Shell of Volutomitra erebus (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Turbinelloidea
Family:	Volutomitridae
Genus:	Volutomitra
Species:	V. erebus
Binomial name
Volutomitra erebus Bayer, 1971

Volutomitra erebus, common name the Erebus mitre volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 50 mm.

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (August 2023)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Colombia and in the Caribbean Sea off Trinidad & Tobago and the Grenadines.

References

1. ^ Volutomitra erebus Bayer, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

• 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

• Bayer, F. M. (1971). New and unusual Mollusks collected by R/V John Elliott Pillsbury and R/V Gerda in the tropical Western Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science. 21(1): 111-236

• v
• t
• e

• Volutomitridae
• Gastropods described in 1971
• Volutomitridae stubs